This is the jump-start post for the twelfth week of the WordPress 4.6 release cycle.
BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3 will land on Wednesday at 18:00 UTC. Our target until then is to get the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. count in the 4.6 milestone down to 40. (Beta 4 => 10, RC1 => 0.)
Priority tickets/projects this week:
- Bug tickets for the Shiny Updates feature
- Bug tickets for Requests/HTTP API
- Accessibility tickets
- Bug reports with a patch
- Bug reports without a patch (puntpunt Contributors sometimes use the verb “punt” when talking about a ticket. This means it is being pushed out to a future release. This typically occurs for lower priority tickets near the end of the release cycle that don’t “make the cut.” In this is colloquial usage of the word, it means to delay or equivocate. (It also describes a play in American football where a team essentially passes up on an opportunity, hoping to put themselves in a better position later to try again.) candidates!)
- Tasks
- About Page: #37246 and brainstorming document
Meetings this week:
Bug Scrubs
- Comments Component Bug Scrub at Monday, July 11, 2016, 19:00 UTC in #core-comments
- Accessibility Focus Bug Scrub at Monday, July 11, 2016, 17:00 UTC in #accessibility
- I18N Component Bug Scrub at Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 18:00 UTC in #core-i18n
- Multisite Component Bug Scrub at Thursday, July 14, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #core-multisite
Feature Chats
- Shiny Updates at Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #feature-shinyupdates
Weekly Chats
- Accessibility Weekly Chat at Monday, July 11, 2016, 18:00 UTC in #accessibility
- Customizer Weekly Chat at Monday, July 11, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #core-customize
- REST API Weekly Chat at Monday, July 11 2016, 23:00 UTC in #core-restapi
- Multisite Weekly Chat at Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 16:00 UTC in #core-multisite
- Editor Weekly Chat at Wednesday, July 13 2016, 18:00 UTC in #core-editor
- Weekly Dev Chat at Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #core
- Core UI Weekly Chat at Thursday, July 14, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #design
- Images Weekly Chat at Friday, July 15, 2016, 19:00 UTC in #core-images
Notable updates from last week:
- Multisite Focused Changes in 4.6
- Enhancing register_meta() in 4.6
- Native Fonts in 4.6
- Shiny Updates in 4.6
- Resource Hints in 4.6
- Bootstrap/Load updates in 4.6
- WP_Term_Query in WordPress 4.6
- I18N Improvements in 4.6
- jQuery UI datepicker localization in 4.6
- Pre-instantiated Widget Registration in 4.6
- Customize API Changes in 4.6
- Customizer APIs in 4.6 for Setting Validation and Notifications