This Week in 4.2: February 9 – 15

This is the jump-start post for the fourth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle.

The feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins merge window is scheduled to open this week on Wednesday, February 11th, and close next Wednesday, February 18th.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Meetings this week:

• Core Dev Chat
  • When: February 11 2015 21:00 UTC
  • Where: #core on Slack
• Weekly Bug Scrub
  • When: February 13 2015 16:00 UTC
  • Where: #core

4.2 Feature Chats this week:

• CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. Theme Switcher – @celloexpressions
  • When: February 10 2015 16:00 UTC
  • Where: #core-customize on Slack
• NUX Working Group – @DrewAPicture
  • When: February 10 2015 19:00 UTC
  • Where: #core-flow
• Shiny Updates – @pento
  • When: February 11 2015 23:00 UTC
  • Where: #core
• Press This – @michael-arestad
  • When: February 12 2015 17:00 UTC
  • Where: #feature-pressthis

Priority tickets this week:

AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

• #30914 – WP List Table: improve table footer tab sequence
• #30619 – The wpView toolbar is not accessible by keyboard
• #26553 – Remove title attributes: comment-template.php
• #30486 – Missing label associations throughout networknetwork (versus site, blog) adminadmin (and super admin)

Mobile:

• #29992 – Cramped tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) action links on small screens
• #29993 – Media action links are cramped on small screens
• #29906 – Submenus can’t be dismissed on mobile
• #29989 – Hide Media Buttons on small screens

Posts seeking your feedback:

• Emoji Feature Plugin proposal for 4.2
• Multisite objectives discussion thread for 2015.

Notable updates from last week:

• Press This feature update 2/5
• Customizer Theme Switcher feature update 2/2
• 4.2 Community Initiative: NUX Working Group
• Dev Chat Summary, February 4th
• WordPress Core Weekly

#4-2, #jump-starts