Feature Plugin chat notes for Jan 26

Agenda

• Review the feature plugins for status updates from leads
• Open floor for feature plugin proposal

Feature Plugin Updates

• Background Image Cropper: @celloexpressions asked for feedback for the Background Image Cropper. Current thinking is this is better explored as a standard enhancement for core. See #32403.
• Customizer: @westonruter left status on the blog post for the Customize Pane Resizer, Customize Device preview (along with @celloexpressions), Selective Refresh, and Transactions. Please comment there if you’re interested in helping out where needed (especially requested for the Pane Resizer).
• Fields API: @sc0ttkclark updated: term add/edit is in: props @technosailor. Team has been working on simplifying the code required for each screen implementing the Fields API. Scott posted an update on make/core and reports getting lots of feedback (especially from @helen, @drew, @technosailor & @celloexpressions)
• Shiny Updates:  @obenland updated – Lots of progress in the last week. @ipstenu helped tremendously in getting it multisite compliant. Team decided to not pursue shiny activations/deactivations for a whole set of reasons, mostly around redirects on subsequent page loads, and fatal error protection.
  Currently working on enabling theme updates without having to open the modal, and revamping update-core.php.  An update will be posted to the make/core blog soon. The team needs more feedback and testing! Testers can get the current plugin from the wordpress.org repository.
• WP-API: @danielbachhuber updated – released beta 11 yesterday. The team is meeting in person (minus @rachelbaker) this week at A Day of REST. Summary: in the home stretch, but there’s a ton more work to do. Friday’s contributor day (at the Day of REST) will hopefully get other people diving in and contributing to the final push.

Open Floor

• @johnbillion mentioned exploring developing the Notifications API in the form of a feature plugin
• @jrf proposed a feature plugin for theme and plugin dependency management and is looking for feedback on the idea — please leave any notes in the comments.

The full logs are available on Slack.

Feature Plugin chat notes for Jan 26 by Adam Silverstein was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/27/feature-plugin-chat-notes-for-jan-26/