Summary, Dev Chat, November 20, 2024

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

As mentioned at the top of today’s agenda, from today forward, the weekly Dev Chat times will be back to 20:00 UTC.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.1

We discussed the plan to release WP 6.7.1 on Thursday, November 21, at 13:30 UTC, according to this schedule.

Next Gutenberg release: 19.8

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.8, scheduled for December 4.

Discussion

@johnbillion mentioned doing some analysis of how often tickets are bumped from one major release to the next, as there are currently >200 tickets in the 6.8 milestone on Trac. @joemcgill suggested