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<p>The full chat log is available beginning <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02KGN5K076/p1744128021054559">here on Slack</a>.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Announcements / Reminders</h2>
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<li>The Performance team is shifting the timing of out meetings to 3pm UTC to match many countries having shifted their time 1 hour in recent weeks. Our next chat will be held on <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250422T1500"><abbr class="date" title="2025-04-22T15:00:00+00:00">Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 15:00 UTC</abbr></a>.</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>WordPress Performance Trac tickets</strong></h2>
<p>There wasn’t much to discuss on performance tickets for the upcoming 6.8 release, since it is coming out next week. </p>
<p>The team discussed the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/04/04/dotorg-core-committers-check-in/">recently announced</a> slowing major release cadence and how that might impact the team’s work. While this means we will have more time to land new features in 6.9, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>swissspidy</a> pointed out what “with more time between releases it becomes even more important to keep an eye on any performance regressions over time”. He plans to work to better document the existing tools we have that help address that. He also pointed out that plugins become more important, so we might want to build more Performance Lab plugins going forward.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Meeting time</h2>
<p>With many countries having shifted their time 1 hour in the last few weeks, the team discussed and emoji-voted on whether to move our meeting time to match. The decision was to change the time from 4pm UTC to 3pm UTC. The time at <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/">https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/</a> was adjusted to reflect this change. The same one hour shift was made to the timing of our bug scrubs as well.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)</strong></h2>
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<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>flixos90</a> requested feedback on his proposal for a new <em>View Transitions plugin </em>– <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1963">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1963</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>swissspidy</a> pointed out the potential in combination with speculative loading for more app-like behavior</li>
<li>The team discussed bumping the “Tested up to” version for the plugin to match the upcoming 6.8 release
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<li>This PR aims to enable bumping the “Tested up to” version without a full plugin update – <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1960">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1960</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>mukesh27</a> pointed out that for <em>Accurate sizes</em> the “Add ancestor block context” PR was merged last week – <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1795">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1795</a> and that <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1818">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1818</a> is ready for review</li>
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<p><strong>Our next chat will be held on <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250422T1500"><abbr class="date" title="2025-04-22T15:00:00+00:00">Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 15:00 UTC</abbr></a> in the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-performance/">#core-performance channel</a> in <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/">Slack</a></strong>.</p>
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