Performance Chat Summary: 3 December 2024

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Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
Next Performance Lab release has been moved from December 2 to December 16
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
End of year Performance Hallway Hangout

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@joemcgill While it’s not a performance ticket. #62046 is the one that I’ve been looking at most recently, as it could have implications on how we approach improving sizes attribute calculation.

@pbearne aiming to do one more update to Image Placeholders
- To the media modal https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/354#issuecomment-2506494681 if this hack is OK
- @joemcgill my question would be whether working on adding dominant color backgrounds in the media modal to the plugin has any real performance benefit that would lead this to be a priority at this point?
- @pbearne it is not a priority but it would nice to finish it now i have worked out how to add it to media model. Adding ThumbHash should be left to @swissspidy client side image code
- @joemcgill yes, as long as the plugin is still a part of the performance lab repo, I think it’s free for contribution if there is something you’ve already got going.
- @pbearne will add some cleaner code. But would like someone better at JS to look at the replace
- @joemcgill Sure. I’ll respond to the issue and am happy to review a PR once you’ve got something together
@mukesh27 The PR 1683 for Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.6 is ready for review. I will work on issue 1557 in the coming week it’s quick one.

@joemcgill This week, I plan on continuing iteration on https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1701
@mukesh27 I’m exploring how we can pass the context for Column block as it’s more complex then other parent blocks

@joemcgill discuss having an end of year Hallway Hangout for the Performance team in the next couple of weeks
- We could even possibly just use this current meeting slot, but should confirm with @flixos90 what will work for him. I suspect he wants to put together some end of year data, similar to last year, that could be shared on the call.
- To be picked up async on Slack once @flixos90 is back