Performance Chat Summary: 10 December 2024

Announcements

Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
The Performance team have posted the WordPress 6.7 Performance Improvements results
The next Performance Lab release will be on December 16
Our performance chat time slot next week will be for our Hallway Hangout: Performance End of Year Review 2024 taking place December 17, 2024 at 16:00 UTC we welcome as many people there as possible!
The performance bug scrub on December 18, 2024 at 16:00 UTC will also be an end of year wrap up session
Upcoming Performance Weekly Chats in December
- No meeting on Tuesday December 24
- No meeting on Tuesday December 31
- Meetings will resume again on Tuesday January 7, 2025

WordPress performance Trac tickets
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Table of Contents

@spacedmonkey ticket #62658 is nearly ready to commit
@joemcgill we’ve got 5 marked for early that would be good to scrub later today if there’s time, since we skipped last week
@pbearne does not yet have a fix for #42743. The issue is that I can’t separate block widgets from the others the way it hacked in is the problem
- @joemcgill Has that challenge been documented anywhere? Happy to read up on it and try to give feedback, or perhaps there is someone else that is familiar with the issue that could help?
- @pbearne The block widgets are load a single widget as part of the option. Happy to have others look at this
@mukesh27 for #58001 suggested we can review the PR and iterate early in the 6.8 cycle
- @spacedmonkey Not had time to look into this one again. I would love if someone else could pick this one up, as it most just needs unit tests now. IMO

@westonruter waiting on some code review support for Optimization Detective PRs: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/milestone/88
@joemcgill these and the related Image Prioritizer milestone issues are being handled by @westonruter @flixos90 and @adamsilverstein but please shout if you you all need any support this week
@mukesh27 the Modern Image Formats plugin PR Convert WebP to AVIF on upload is ready for review
@joemcgill looks like this PR from @pbearne on an update on Image Placeholders is getting close: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1719. Would be great to get this into the final release of the year
@joemcgill has a few tweaks to make to https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1701 for Enhanced Responsive Images that I hope to wrap up today and then hopefully we can include another round of updates in this release as well

@spacedmonkey to discuss #57496
- Has added tests to the above. I need code review. Can this be added to WP 6.8?
- @joemcgill I don’t see any reason why it can’t be milestoned if it’s close. @pbearne you had self assigned ownership, but am wondering who needs to shepherd this into the release?
- @pbearne the code is ready it just need a committer to help
- @spacedmonkey I am happy to commit this and action feedback. It doesn’t really need much more, I think it is basically done.