Road to 4.5: All Hands on Deck

We’re almost there! Release day is April 12.

In order to get there, help is needed to resolve the remaining issues in the report.

The regular dev meeting will be at April 6, 2016 at 20:00 UTC, where we’ll go over status, but the report should really be clear before then.

There are currently 11 tickets in the milestone, which with few exceptions need to be resolved so that we can ship an RC 2 this week in preparation for release next week.

We need all hands on deck — especially if you are a component maintainer or committer, but all eyes appreciated. Please watch the milestone for tickets you can suggest remedies for or whose patches you can review.

In particular, the help of lead developers and permanent committers is requested, because without approval from two of you for each patch, we cannot move forward with committing fixes. Thanks to those of you who have been doing reviews!

Tickets with a patch and single sign-off in need of a second are:

• #34133 – Selective Refresh: Make sure refresh transport is used only when appropriate.
• #36389 – Moderate Comments: Pass through comment_text().
• #36407 – I18n: Remove an extra space.

Needs testing and double sign-off:

• #36380 – Moderate Comments: Show link URLs to avoid abuse.

Needs patch:

• #36412 – Custom Logo: Can’t skip crop for images smaller than specified in theme.
• #36392 – Script Loader: wp_add_inline_script() breaks script dependency order.
• #36173 – About Page: Needs commit with final strings by Wednesday. Draft design & strings attached for review.

Can ride:

• #36354 – Bump core themes versions prior to release.
• #36401 – Bump Akismet for 4.5.
• #36413 – Additional tests for roles/caps
• #35857 – Additional tests for customizer/selective refresh

Thanks for your help in getting us through the final stretch.

Road to 4.5: All Hands on Deck by Mike Schroder was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/04/road-to-4-5-all-hands-on-deck/