WordPress Launches Old Tickets Trac Triage Sessions – WP Tavern

February 1, 2023 Xploited Media

As a part of the big picture goals for WordPress in 2023, the mission is embarking on an effort to work by way of previous tickets which are caught as a result of no consensus, lacking choices, or a number of doable options. WordPress Core Committer Jb Audras has organized Trac triage sessions devoted to transferring these tickets ahead or closing those which are now not related.

Audras’ audit exhibits that there are 19 tickets which are greater than 15 years previous, 688 which are 10 years previous, however the largest chunk of 3,484 tickets falls into the 5-10 12 months previous class.

The primary kickoff session was held on January 26 within the #core Slack channel. Contributors began with a small number of very previous tickets with the objective of figuring out a path in the direction of decision and an proprietor for the ticket. This generated some renewed dialogue, for instance, on a 17-year-old ticket the place “HTML comments in posts aren’t handled properly” and one other of the identical age relating to an unwanted slash in get_pagenum_link().

In some instances tickets have been closed and in others contributors are engaged on reproducing the difficulty, testing, and refreshing patches the place doable. One 13-year-old ticket, which fixes the wp_get_attachment_url() function not returning a valid URL if the filename contains unescaped URL characters, was added to the 6.2 milestone with a PR awaiting overview. Some tickets require deep historic information of WordPress and can profit from having participation from veteran contributors.

The following “Basic” triage session will occur within the #core Slack channel on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST. Anybody who desires to be a part of discovering a decision for a few of these previous tickets is invited to hitch. Members within the kickoff session additionally mentioned alternating between very previous and really new tickets, which are sometimes simpler for getting newer contributors concerned.