Feedback Requested: Proposed Rollback Feature in 6.1, Performance Team Hosting Stats, and Recording Five for the Future Contributions

This Week at WordPress.org (June 29, 2022)

Get the scoop on planning for the WordPress 6.1 release, and help test its proposed plugin Rollback feature. There are also many calls for feedback from the Performance team and Five for the Future.

Your Feedback, Please!

The Performance team wants to explore ideas for automatically checking plugin best practices with a focus on security and performance, and they’ve outlined potential options and approaches to tracking performance metrics within WordPress, with new documents on the big picture and front end metrics in particular.

Your feedback is also needed on three proposals for tracking 5FTF contributions. They address 1) the lack of clarity between confirmed and sponsored contributions, 2) including translation work, and 3) the need for a digest mechanism for contribution types.

News

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— Jonathan Bossenger (@jon_bossenger) June 29, 2022

Core

Rollback Feature: Testing Call to Action
Plan for adding WebP & multiple MIME support for images
Performance team meeting summary 28 June 2022
- @spacedmonkey: Also been contacting hosting companies and asking about object cache implementations. There are a number of hosts who don’t have the latest improvements to object caching like wp_cache_get_multiple
- FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Proposal for plugin checker
- FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Measurement overview doc
- FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Capturing front-end performance metrics in WordPress doc
A Week in Core – June 27, 2022
Editor chat summary: June 22, 2022
WordPress 6.0.x release team and 6.0.1 schedule

Community

Design

Thinking Through the WordPress Admin Experience
- Surface navigation structure as a dedicated UI

Marketing

Mobile

Openverse

Community Meeting Recap (28 June 2022)

Polyglots

Plugins

Plugin Review Team: 27 June 2022

Project

Test

Themes

Support

What’s The Deal with Invalid Reviews?

Training

Workshop

WPTV

Latest WordPress TV videos

Five for the Future

What’s happening specific to Five for the Future? Provide your feedback on these posts:

Confirmed vs Sponsored Contributor Stats — The distinction between the two is unclear and confusing. Ian Dunn has proposed a few solutions.
Track translations — Why not track all translation work as 5FTF contributions?
Create digesting mechanism — Some contributions are so frequent they will quickly fill up a person’s profile and crowd out all the other activity there. Ian Dun explains the problem and suggests a digest mechanism.

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