Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 13

Plugin Chat

• Chat meeting notes posted on make/core.
• Another feature plugin chat will be scheduled before the feature plugin decision deadline which is Feb. 3rd.

Week in Core

• These are very popular and much appreciated updates.
• @morganestes has done a great job with them; we need more volunteers!
• @ebinnion and @grantpalin volunteered to take on these updates; The crowd reacted wildly!

Focus Status Check

• HTTPS Improvements: @johnbillion
  • Continue with HTTPS fixes, including edge cases, mixed content
  • Help fix sites that use a mixture of HTTP and HTTPS (for example, HTTPS for the admin area)
  • Introduce a means of forcing a site to use HTTPS exclusively
  • Attempt to default to HTTPS for new installs where it’s supported

• Image Improvements: @joemcgill
  • Some bug fixing from 4.4 implementation
  • Picking up work on #33642 – improving compression of images
  • Start working thru code cleanup in images
  • @azaozz mentioned the longer term goal of changing image handling overall

• Customizer: @westonruter, @celloexpressions
  • Many things targeted for 4.5 in the Customizer –
    Status the same as from yesterday’s meeting.
  • Looking for theme developer feedback on Selective Refresh (#27355).

• Multisite/WP_Site: @jeremyfelt
  • Regular meetings will begin again in #core-multisite Tuesday at 21:00 UTC.
  • WP_Site class, ticket #32450 has a good patch. Feedback is very welcome.

• Post New: @michaelarestad
  • Project ideas posted on the make blog.  Many ideas here; some will take longer than a single release cycle.
  • Comment there to express interest in working on any of the items.

• Editor: @azaozz, @iseulde
  • Inline wplink dialog.
  • Improved wpView/blocks inside the editor using the recently introduced TinyMCE API.
  • Few more “editing shortcuts” like backticks for <code> and triple backticks for <pre><code>.
  • Thinking about how to integrate TineMCE’s image manipulation module.
  • Will post a “wishlist” for 4.5 by the end of the week.

Open Floor

• Comments update from @rachelbaker: 8 open tickets right now slated for 4.5. Highlights
  • #4332 – a 9+ year old Trac ticket that @wonderboymusic made some progress on in 4.4. I refreshed the patch yesterday, but it still needs i18n and developer feedback.
  • #34133 has some great UX feedback/discussion from @melchoyce @karmatosed and @afercia. Improves Moderate Comments screen. Feedback requested.
  • #33717 ( Notification Email When a Comment is Approved ) has an updated patch and @swisspidy is looking for some feedback.

• Notifications API update from @johnbillion:
  • Would like to replace wp_mail() with an extensible notifications API, which sends emails by default but can easily be hooked in to send notifications via any other means, such as webhooks that enable Slack/IM/push notifications, etc. Optional admin UI for users and admins to opt in/out of individual notifications and notification types. Will post to make/core shortly.

View the full logs on Slack.

Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 13 by Adam Silverstein was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/13/core-dev-chat-notes-for-jan-13/