Primary Goals for WP 5.3
Rough timeline for 5.3 is mid-August. That gives about 2 months until beta.
Gutenberg audit issues are in progress, and are a priority; other priority should be the 43 tickets slated for next release on trac. Many of these are media tickets, which would be a good focus with broad applicability between Gutenberg and classic editor experience.
@anevins and @karmatosed will take lead to triage and communicate with media/design teams as appropriate.
Improving form input validation is a valuable project, but probably not in scope for 5.3. @greatislander will open ticket, with plans to research during 5.3 and hopefully be able to implement in 5.4.
User Handbook
No evidence of this happening; we need to work on reviewing the content written by @abrightclearweb, get it up to date, then make a publication plan.
Gutenberg Open Forum
New member made observations about learning block editor:
Sometimes it can be tricky to move blocks around. Drag and drop doesn’t work too well for me, so I use the arrows on the left side. They’re not that big in size and can be tricky. I was also stumped by the right sidebar settings when I first got started. It took some time to get use to how they work and how the context changes depending on what block I’ve selected, if any.
@Chuck, user of Zoom software
Improving control size would be helpful.