One topic of the core chat was to brainstorm ideas for the next larger WordPress release 4.9.
Core
Dev chat from June 21
The main point of the meeting was brainstorming ideas for the 4.9 release. Among other ideas, there were the following:
- Adding statuses for customizer changesets to draft a changeset and later schedule it to go live.
- Adding new mobile-optimized UX from TinyMCE.
- Code editing improvements (for CSS editing, the code editor for plugins and themes, et cetera).
- Revisions for everything.
- Gallery widget.
Besides that, there was a agenda item for 4.8.1. More about the meeting in the post »Dev Chat Summary: June 21st (4.8.1 week 1)« by Jeffrey Paul.
Misc
- »JavaScript Chat Summary for June 20th«. One large agenda item of the meeting was the question how to increase the JavaScript contributions in the core.
- »WCEU & Weekly Multisite Chat Summaries«. During WordCamp Europe lunch, there was a discussion about the multisite component. The post summarizes it and contains a plan to improve the ongoing of the multisite component.
- »What’s new in Gutenberg? (June 23rd)«. The team added, among other things, the post category selector, drop cap setting support for blocks, and a custom HTML block.
Design
Misc
- »Design meetings new format«.
- »Notes from community summit design session«.
- »Design contributor story and tasks«.
- »The current state of Dashicons«.