A Year in Core: A Retrospective

Both a retrospective and look into the future: We’ll walk through the last year in WordPress core — what’s changed, how some of these changes have been received, and a peek into what’s likely for 4.4, due in early December.

Presented by Mike Schroder at WordCamp LA 2015

Transcript

1. Year in Core: a retrospective
   WordCamp Los Angeles 2015 Mike Schroder (DH-Shredder) WordPress Platform Lead at DreamHost @GetSource - http://www.getsource.net
2. Who Am I? • Mike Schroder, a.k.a DH-Shredder,
 a.k.a. @GetSource • Third Culture Kid, enjoy Coffee & Sailing • WordPress 3.9 Co-Lead and Core Contributor • Happy DreamHost Employee
3. Why a retrospective?
5. 2014/9/4 - 2015/9/4 4 major releases 7 minor releases
6. This is a quick pace.
7. WordPress 4.0 “Benny” September 4, 2014 Lead by Helen Hou-Sandí. 275 contributors.
10. WordPress 4.1 “Dinah” December 18, 2014 Lead by John Blackbourn. 283 contributors.
14. WordPress 4.2 “Powell” April 23, 2015 Lead by Drew Jaynes. 283 contributors.
18. WordPress 4.3 “Billie” August 18, 2015 Lead by Konstantin Obenland. 246 contributors.
23. No more comments on new Pages!
24. Okay. Let’s take a look at the FUTURE!
25. WordPress 4.4 Early December, 2015 Lead by Scott Taylor.
26. From here on out, nothing is confirmed.
27. Except this — as of last Wednesday, 5 weeks and 727 commits.
31. REST API Step 1.
32. Term Meta!
33. Comment Overhaul!
34. A year ago, there were 16 committers. http://codex.wordpress.org/Core_Team
35. Now, there are 24. http://codex.wordpress.org/Core_Team
36. What are your most or least favorite changes during the past year? - getsource.net/year-in-core - make.wordpress.org/core 
 Reviews: http://wclax.reviews 
 Mike Schroder (DH-Shredder) WordPress Platform Lead at DreamHost @GetSource - http://www.getsource.net