Dev Chat summary: April 8, 2026

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb Agenda post.

Announcements

WordPress 7.0 Updates

• The Path Forward for WordPress 7.0. Quick summary:

trunk is closed to commits for the 7.1 release until further notice

• Backporting to 7.0 still requires double committer sign off

• Pre-releases are paused

• The next release will be a RC

• We’re currently in string freeze

• New Dev Notes:

Building a custom sync provider for real-time collaboration

Discussion

From @desrosj: contributors who have a list of notes for tickets to create are encouraged to create them before the WordCamp Asia Contributor Day. Especially if they are good-first-bugs! 

@desrosj added: “If someone has some time, triaging the good-first-bug list could also be helpful. Sometimes that list is intimidating because it seems like everything is attended to. But often times the patches need to be refreshed or the approaches so far are not fully solving the issue at hand. If we could note that on the tickets, it may make them more easily actionable.”

@audrasjb noted that the 8 tickets in the i18n component for 7.0 are easy tickets that would be nice to address during the contributor day. They are also Polyglots, Core, and Core Editor cross-team tickets.

@desrosj will encourage our Polyglots contributors to open tickets for strings that need refinement and additional context as it is a great way to contribute to the upcoming release.

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