Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 20

Announcements

• Week in Core is started up again!  Thanks @ebinnion, @adamsilverstein, and @morganestes for the effort. Help is needed!  Please join the Slack #core-weekly-update to volunteer.
• There will be another feature plugin meeting next Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 2100 UTC (normal dev chat time). More details coming soon.

Focus Status Updates

• Customizer: @westonruter, @celloexpressions
  • Good progress has happened for selective refresh, with good feedback and an architectural direction #27355.
  • A responsive preview feature has been getting good feedback and is nearing a committable patch #31195.
  • Update make/core post coming soon.
• HTTPS Improvements: @johnbillion
  • Nothing specific to report about the HTTPS work, there will be a meeting next week about ‘force ssl’ which he will post about in make/core tomorrow morning for those who want to get involved.
• Image Improvements: @joemcgill
  • Improving Imagick compression settings #33642 is still a priority.
  • Looking into options for #28474 (better animated GIF handling).
  • Longer term effort: what can be done to improve some of the core API for working with images
• Multisite/WP_Site: @jeremyfelt
  • Several things assigned to the 4.5 milestone
  • A reorg of filters for network allowed themes went in today.
  • Working at the latest <code>WP_Site</code> patch now with the intent of putting it in today or tomorrow.
  • Office hours on Tuesdays at 21:00 UTC in #core-multisite; bring your bugs.
• Post New: @michaelarestad
  • @karmatosed is going to be leading a team focused on improving the Revisions UI
  • @hugobaeta is going to be leading the Toolbar Remix team
  • @michaelarestad working on improving the Publishing UX and Metaboxes
  • @michaelarestad made a Sketch template for wp-admin that’s accurate and will be published later this week.
  • Update posts coming soon
  • Join the effort: comment on the original post and join the Slack #design channel.
• Editor: @azaozz, @iseulde
  • @iseulde is working on the inline link dialog
  • @azaozz just upgraded TinyMCE
  • They posted a wishlist for 4.5, comment there for feedback

Open Floor

• @ipstenu brought up #35429; @michaelarestad going to review from UX perspective, discussion
• @azaozz brought up inline link dialog autocomplete, extend suggest.js or use another library (typeahead, select2)? what is the use case? discussion in #core-editor. @sheri offered to help with user testing to determine the best UX.
• Meeting ended, ticket conversation continued…

View the full logs on Slack.

Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 20 by Adam Silverstein was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/20/core-dev-chat-notes-for-jan-20/