Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

• Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
• WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate 1 is today
  • Dev notes discussion
    • @joemcgill We started tracking these in this GH issue: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/840
    • @flixos90 updated dev notes ready for review in this Slack thread
    • Two other dev notes for the docs team to review please @webcommsat
      • Object Caching – requires some changes to be owned by @westonruter
      • Template Loading – required some changes to be owned by @westonruter
  • @flixos90 to draft the field guide performance section
• Reminder about the Performance Hallway Hangout this week Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 04:00 PM GMT+1

Priority Projects

Server Response Time

Link to roadmap projects

Contributors: @joemcgill @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27

• @joemcgill has been reviewing 6.5 priorities
  • @swissspidy opened #59656 to track merging Performant Translations into WP 6.5
  • We plan to pick up work on improving Template Loading (see: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/746)
  • I’ll be doing another profiling analysis of 6.4 during RC to see what other issues should be prioritized

Database Optimization

Link to roadmap projects

Contributors: @mukesh27 @thekt12

• @thekt12 Bug (needs unit tests before going for review #59661
• @thekt12 also completed my analysis get_posts #59516 Found that for WP_Query fields  is the only key that results in modification after cache key generation. I’ll add a writeup shortly
• @joemcgill There were several updates made in 6.4 related to autoloaded options, but I know there are a few more things planned. @flixos90 are there updates that need to be made to this tracking issue?

JavaScript & CSS

Link to roadmap project

Contributors: @mukesh27 @10upsimon @westonruter

• @westonruter there were a couple of late changes that were fixed last week
  • #59599
  • #59505
• @mukesh27 We hope to commence the process of removing jQuery usage from the frontend in WordPress default themes for version 6.5 [Link to tickets]
• @pereirinha I’ve been doing research on #59595. I might have a good idea of how to improve it. I hope to have more news later in the week, where I plan to share the findings and potential solutions.

Images

Link to roadmap projects

Contributors: @flixos90 @thekt12 @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @pereirinha

• @adamsilverstein I opened a couple of small bugs related to our fetchpriority handling #59641 and #59638
• @adamsilverstein I have one more in the works to cover issues where images are used in layouts that change their size for example in columns
• @joemcgill We discussed background images last week, but I’m unsure if we ever opened a ticket for that which is here https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53934#issuecomment-1756213964

Measurement

Link to roadmap projects

Contributors: @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @mukesh27 @swissspidy @flixos90

• @swissspidy WordPress core end-to-end and performance tests now use Playwright — see #59517 for details

Ecosystem Tools

Link to roadmap projects

Contributors: @mukesh27 @swissspidy @westonruter

• @mukesh27
  • PR Add Trademarks_Check 285 – Merged 
  • Bump minimum required PHP version to 7.0 and minimum required WP version to 6.3 – Merged 
  • Working on Refactoring and Code Duplication Reduction for Plugin_Readme_Check and Trademarks_Check

Creating Standalone Plugins

Link to GitHub overview issue

Contributors: @flixos90 @mukesh27 @10upsimon

• @10upsimon Priorities for me at the moment:
  • Implement migration logic and UI from old PL modules to new standalone plugins in PL settings screen #652
    • Final stages of prep for PR
    • Have opened a feature branch and 2 PR’s (one with and one without plugin update UI actions)
  • Implement migration logic and UI from old PL modules to new standalone plugins in PL settings screen #652
    • Following on from the above issue 652
  • Exclude .wordpress-org directory when deploying standalone plugins #850

Open Floor

• n/a

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

#core-performance, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary