Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 6

Announcements

• Deputies announced: @adamsilverstein as release deputy and @melchoyce as design deputy
• Bug scrubs led by @chriscct7 to start: in #core on Fridays: Fridays at 11:00 UTC
• 4.4.1 was released today

4.5 Schedule

• The schedule for 4.5 has been posted: https://make.wordpress.org/core/version-4-5-project-schedule/
• A Feature Plugin chat is scheduled to garner feedback, and also to propose plugin ideas. Next Tuesday Jan 12th, at 21:00 UTC (the dev chat time)

Focus Runthru

• Customizer – @westonruter reported on & @karmatosed, @melchoyce, @valendesigns and @michaelarestad expressed interest in
  • Features in progress: Customize Pane Resizer, Customize Device Preview. Customize Setting Validation, Create page stubs for adding nav menu items.
  • Features ready: Transactions and Selective Refresh
• Edit/Publish Flow – @michaelarestad
  • Blog post coming soon, incremental steps towards improving the new post and publishing process.
• Image-centric – @joemcgill #33642
  • Finish work on improving compression of images
• No More Mixed Content (https improvements) – @johnbillion leading & @jeremyfelt, @richardtape, @eric expressed interest

Open Floor

• @tollmanz working on alloptions issues #31245
• @karmatosed mentioned comment editing and comment types #35214
• @mike wants to keep the ticket closing momentum going
• @jeremyfelt working on WP_Site and starting multisite office hours again on Tuesday January 17, at 21:00 UTC #core-multisite.
• @markoheijnen working on XML-RPC tickets
• General discussion or media management & how to make it better

View the full logs on Slack.

Core Dev Chat Notes for Jan 6 by Adam Silverstein was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/07/core-dev-chat-notes-jan-6/