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:
- Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme
- Active tickets slated for the next WP 6.5 release
- 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/ 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues. - Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
- Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 25 March 2024
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
Did you know that contributions with the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute, and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.
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:
- #60807 Twenty Twenty theme List block have spacing difference in editor and front end.
- #60806 Remove query alteration from build_comment_query_vars_from_block
- #60826 Fix incorrect use of add_theme_support( ‘editor-style(s)’ )
- #60831 Investigate flakey `Tests_Admin_wpSiteHealth ::test_object_cache_thresholds()` test
- #60832 add_meta_box breaks on plugin sub-pages if add_menu_page has dynamic title
- #60839 WordPress issue > WordPress 6.5 RC3 and 6.4.3, crop feature not working: Invalid Paramter
- #60844 Cover block not working correctly when changing thep aspect ratio
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:
- #60479 Remove adminbar skiplink focus fix
- #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
- #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
- #60815 Regression with theme.json `settings.shadow.defaultPresets`
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.
No 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit testing right now.
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.5 release delayed 1 week to accommodate the new Font library feature
- WordPress 6.5 Release Day Process will now be released on April 2, 2024. Dry run will start 24 hours prior to the scheduled release.
- Next Gutenberg release: 18.0
- WordPress 6.5 Field Guide
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>The test team need you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.