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Notes iteration for WordPress 7.1

WordPress/gutenberg 5 comments 22d ago
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highopenScope: somewhat clearSkill match: maybeWordPressJavaScriptReact

Why this is a good first issue

This issue involves multiple complex features and cross-cutting changes.

AI Summary

This issue outlines multiple enhancements and bug fixes for Notes in WordPress 7.1, including inline commenting, rich text support, notifications, and emoji reactions. The scope is broad and involves several interconnected features. The requirements are somewhat clear but require deep integration with existing systems.

Issue Description

Following on from the work in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/66377 and https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73260 for the last two respective releases, this issue serves as the iteration issue for Notes enhancements, tasks, and bug fixes planned for WordPress 7.1.

  • Support for Notes on specific content within a block (Inline block commenting #59445)
  • Support for Notes on content across more than one block (e.g., text spanning multiple paragraph blocks) (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73416)
  • Add support for rich text to Notes (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73413)
  • Sending notifications for Notes (beyond what was achieved in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73030, beginning with https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/72184). This should include for mentions, responses, follow a note.
  • Minified Notes experience (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73417)
  • Add "apply suggestions" feature to Notes (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73411)
  • Introducing a new "Suggestion mode" tool for exposing Notes features (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73410)
  • Add emoji reactions to Notes (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/75144, https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/75549)

Designs

Pulling from @jasmussen lovely comment here, below are some designs for implementing aspects of the above scope.

Adding notes, even inline

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Make a selection, click the floating button (or we add a button in the main block toolbar). Notes can exist in the canvas even with a sidebar open.

Managing notes

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The notes

GitHub Labels

[Type] Iteration[Feature] Notes

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Risk Flags

  • cross-cutting changes
  • multiple features
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Details

Points40 pts
Difficultyhigh
Scopesomewhat clear
Skill Matchmaybe
Test Focusedno