Interactivity API: New Component proposal

[jonsurrell]

​The Interactivity API is a new API shipped in WordPress in 6.5. It is a good candidate to be a new ​Core Component.

It does not fall clearly under any of the existing Core Components. Trac tickets wind up in the "General" Component. We cannot take advantage of the benefits of a dedicated Component like notifications or maintainers. Additionally, there's no dedicated Slack channel where folks can discuss the API and development conversations can happen in public.

[jonsurrell]

I created this ticket after several conversations in Slack, I'll link them here for context:

​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1714658432134029?thread_ts=1714652707.300619&cid=C02RQBWTW
​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1714466216819549?thread_ts=1714034024.325009&cid=C02QB8GMM

[joemcgill]

I think this is a good idea and would suggest the following:

1. A new #core-interactivity-api Slack channel
2. The new component listed in Trac
3. A dedicated component page listed on the make/core site, like ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/rest-api/.

[dd32]

A new #core-interactivity-api Slack channel

Done! ​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C071CRKGKUP

The new component listed in Trac

Done!

​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?component=Interactivity+API

A dedicated component page listed on the make/core site, like ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/rest-api/.

Done!
​https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/interactivity-api/

Add maintainers: ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/wp-admin/post.php?post=112812&action=edit

[dd32]

In 13657:

Trac: Pipe new tickets about the HTML API & Interactivity API to their respective channels.

Fixes #7622.

[dd32]

If you'd like commits to specific files also piped to the relevant channel, regardless of commit message, let me know the paths that you want monitored and I'll add it to the config:

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/common/includes/slack/trac/config.php?marks=6-75

[jonsurrell]

Thank you!

Can we send changes in /wp-includes/interactivity-api/ to #core-interactivity-api?
Can we also handle changes in /wp-includes/html-api/ to #core-html-api?

[dd32]

In 13667:

Slack: Send commits related to the Interactivity API & HTML API to their respective channels.

Props jonsurrell.
Fixes #7622.