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# cxe-red - 9/13/2021

## Status
* (Mak) MenuButton Convergence [#18135](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18135)
    * No updates this week
* (Mak) SplitButton Convergence [#18136](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18136)
    * Cleaning up PR - https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/pull/18290
* (Mak) Integrating vNext button with office-online-ui
    * Had more conversations about theming: how to ship old and new components side-by-side with two separate theme providers
        * Working with Levi
* (Mak) Beta release
    * Working on PR to update link to use root as a slot and simplified prop merging
    * Working on Button and Divider as well
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* (Ben) Avatar convergence [#16373](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/16373)
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* (Ben) Label Convergence [#18247](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18247)
    * No updates this week
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* (Ben) IntrinsicShorthandProps
    * Added a new helper type that's intended to make it easier to author slot props:
        * `root: IntrinsicShorthandProps<'label', 'span' | 'div'>`
    * Does props type checking based on the 'as' prop
    * Working on fixing an issue when the root slot has more than one type
* (Ben) Driving [Beta release](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/projects/50)
    * Working on a beta ETA. We're going to re-evaluate the remaining work next Thursday and come up with an estimated release date.
    * Work is tracked on the beta board: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/projects/50
* (Elizabeth) Attending TSConf
    * Starting a brown bag series for the team, covering TypeScript, web development, etc. (learning from community outside of Microsoft about best practices for the tools we're using, and new developments)
* (Elizabeth) Versioning
    * Helping Ling with reviews and some work on beachball to unblock versioning strategy changes
* (Elizabeth) Website: tracking down ownership of fabric-core so design team can make some fixes
* (Elizabeth) Input convergence [#18131](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18131)
    * Working on Input spec
    * Figuring out field patterns (especially for labels) to ensure we're consistent across input components https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19627
* (Elizabeth, Ben) RFC: Customizing application of native element props and ref [#18983](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18983)
    * Updating RFC to include option D [Ben]
* (Elizabeth) Checkbox Convergence [#18454](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18454)
    * No updates this week.
* (Elizabeth, Tomi) react-icons bundle size
    * Elizabeth wrote a script for generating .d.ts rollup for icons
        * Tomi incorporated into react-icons package
        * Trimmed from ~60k to ~17.5k files in package
* (Geoff/Elizabeth) API review / props comparison [#19115](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19115)
    * RFC in PR review detailing possible inconsistencies
    * Plan to have work items this week and start fixing them w/component owners
* (Sarah) Select: basic form element wrapper for `<select>`
    * Will add spec for the Select component
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* (Sarah) RFC: update slots API to allow arrays [#19266](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19266)
    * Add research on Reach UI's descendants API, and Adobe Spectrum's approach
* (Sarah) RFC: conventions for internationalization/localization in converged components [#19258](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19258)
    * Add list of all global default strings
* (Sarah) vNext a11y review
    * https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19779
* (Sarah) A11y controls club review of auto-fixing input values on blur
    * Needed to determine the best fix for the Fluent v8 ColorPicker behavior in this bug: https://dev.azure.com/microsoftdesign/fluent-ui/_workitems/edit/11964
    * Created a SR-only live region example to compare to the current behavior
* (Sarah/Geoff) Accessibility bugs - [#18466](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18466)
    * [ADO board: a11y - triageed](https://dev.azure.com/microsoftdesign/fluent-ui/_queries/query/c605af37-0d59-436c-9399-ab2fb0869332)
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* (Tomi) Icon Convergence [#16745](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/16745)
    * Work on resizable icons blocked on issue with configuring SVGR
    * Need to figure out release plan for resizable icons
        * Need to use a new package name so as not to disrupt people using react-icons
        * Upcoming RFC to determine how to name icon package
* (Tristan) Transitioning build pipeline to 1ES
    * Created PR to ImageFactory repo to support creating managed image
    * Created managed image for our pool
    * Perf not as big an issue - comparable to previous perf
    * PR out to switch to 1ES managed pools
* (Caleb) Slider Convergence [#18886](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18886)
    * Finishing up checklist
        * root-as-slot implementation
        * migration guide
        * package now public
    * Wrote spec for range slider
        * Draft implementation created locally
* (Caleb) Switch Convergence [#19409](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19409)
    * Basic implementation done and merged
        * Added spec, VR tests, etc.
* (Caleb) Add RTL screener test for all converged components
    * Applies to all converged components
    * Caught an issue in Menu
    
