Ryan updated on the status of the merge which is now complete in its first form. The upgrade from single to multi works well switching back and forth is easily done by copying wp-config files. A large amount of the code cleanup is but there are still outstanding areas. It will be ready for people to start testing an early preview release in a week or two.
Ryan then gave us a quick update on custom post types which are mostly all there except for fixing bugs. Quick Edit needs some work. The taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. needs some work. Some of the AJAX bits need better post type awareness – so if you want to dive in a try this feature out and feedback now sounds like a good time.
Next we discussed private posts and how support for them could be improved and the query performance improved when they used as well as the pros and cons of moving them to being in a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party..
We had a short discussion on Coding Standards and agreed to try an apply them more consistently and add some more detail to our existing documentation.
We had a short discussion around the plugin/themes repository and better notification for plugin authors when a plugin is suspended as well as making the contact information more prominent.
Finally we talked about moving to jQuery 1.4 and the consensus was to get it in early so we had time to find any issues
(updated to correct 3rd paragraph to mention private posts)