Core Dev chat notes for Feb 24

Agenda

Schedule, Beta.

Schedule

Reminder of the 4.5 release schedule:

• Beta 1 today (Feb 24th).
• RC1 on March 23rd.
• 4.5 release on April 12th.

Beta

• @mike wanted to discuss Theme Logo Support (#33755). It’s a big feature that still hasn’t landed. Discussion of a more generalized API for theme images as a long term goal. @obenland will put together a commit for a first run.
• Reviewed the six enhancements that were left in the 4.5 milestone:
  • Improve default Imagick compression settings (#33642) @mike putting together a first run commit.
  • Permit sticky posts to affect the query in REST_REQUEST (#35907). @jorbin to commit committed.
  • Include auto-discovery header on REST responses (#35580) possibly punting.
  • Add filters to allow creating REST API middleware plugins (#35590) possibly punting.
  • Include a refreshed nonce when responding to an authenticated REST API response (#35662)  possibly punting.
  • Provide an “Edit user” link after adding a new user to a site or network (#35705) – @jeremyfelt will commit committed.
• Discussion around what items should be in the 4.5 Beta 1 release announcement.

Full logs on slack.

Core Dev chat notes for Feb 24 by Adam Silverstein was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/24/core-dev-chat-notes-for-feb-24/