Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.
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Calls for Testing 📣
Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:
- WordPress 6.4.3 RC1 is now available
- Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
- Proposal: Pilot program to test GatherPress on the WordPress.org network as a Meetup alternative
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Here is the Weekly update: Test Team Update: 29 January 2024
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
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Reproduction Testing 🔁
Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.
The following new tickets are awaiting review, and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:
- #60330 redirect that working incorrectly!
- #60327 Fix: PHP 8.1 deprecated warning strpos()
- #60336 Twenty Sixteen :- Table block having issue with border when text color is used.
- #60341 Fix: Theme.json font settings in unit test
- #60349 Rest API media upload utf8 urlencoded filename not decoded on server
- #60347 wp_kses breaking text fragments links
- #60362 Emojis cause “Updating failed. Could not update post in the database.” error
- #60364 Incorrect argument type given on number_format
- #60371 get_home_path fails in headless mode.
- #60372 This update broke functions
- #60373 plugin activation errors are accidentally hidden
- #60329 Quick Edit tags-input drop-down selection box hangs exactly over the Published/Draft/Queud selection-box
Patch Testing 🩹
Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.
The following tickets have been reviewed and a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:
- #58603 Twenty Twenty-Three: Update font sizes to ensure accessible responsive typography
- #58783 Alternative text entered whilst uploading an image is lost when the image finished uploading
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #58827 Publish the Patterns page in the Site Editor to all non-block themes
- #51812 Update jQuery step three
- #59693 Twenty Fifteen: Apostrophe overlaps with other characters
- #60334 Twenty Twenty-Four: Focus outline is insufficient
- #48823 Collect all REST API meta errors at once
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
- #59924 Twenty Nineteen: The navigation block submenu button is unreadable
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The following 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #59496 Duotone undefined index/array key warning
- #18408 Can’t wp_reset_postdata after custom WP_Query in an admin edit page
- #17904 Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #59774 Undefined array key when using wp_list_pluck function
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
6.5 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #58603 Twenty Twenty-Three: Update font sizes to ensure accessible responsive typography
- #58783 Alternative text entered whilst uploading an image is lost when the image finished uploading
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #58827 Publish the Patterns page in the Site Editor to all non-block themes
- #59693 Twenty Fifteen: Apostrophe overlaps with other characters
- #60334 Twenty Twenty-Four: Focus outline is insufficient
- #48823 Collect all REST API meta errors at once
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
- #59924 Twenty Nineteen: The navigation block submenu button is unreadable
- Pattern overrides: work is ready to test starting with making paragraph blocks overrideable. Up next, headings, buttons and images are expected to be added soon as blocks that can have overrides.
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
- Big Picture Goals 2024
- Proposal: What’s next for the Outreach program
- Call for Mentees & Mentors: Contributor Mentorship Program Cohort #2 (2024 Q1)
- Core-editor improvement – revisions in the site editor. This is a useful post for understanding some of the changes and new features to current revision functionality in the Site Editor aimed for 6.5 and the wider work in this area.
- Editor: Important milestones for WordPress 6.5 – useful post for contributors working or wishing to support the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ repository with the scheduled 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. 1 for WordPress 6.5 scheduled for February 13, 2024.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Monday, 30 January 2023 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Monday, 06 February 2023 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
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