Notes from an informal meeting of WordPress Core Committers held at WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków. Key topics included reducing friction between the wordpress-develop and Gutenberg codebases (build script changes, SVN/Git sync issues), improving communication practices around planned changes, a proposal for a Canary-style release channel with feature flags, expanding beta testing by potentially merging the Beta Tester plugin into Core, and a discussion on removing real-time collaboration (RTC) from WordPress 7.0. The group broadly agreed RTC's removal was justified but called for clearer acceptance criteria before reconsideration. Action items include addressing SVN/Git ignore discrepancies, improving feedback loops, and investigating recent changes to committer GitHub permissions.
