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ashiquzzaman 7:24 am on April 13, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting April 12 2021

Attendance: @crstauf, @chaion07 , @tacitonic , @justinahinon , @FahimMurshed , @atachibana , @estelaris , @bph , @stefanocassone , @themiked, @ashiquzzaman

Housekeeping:

Where: #docs channel on Slack.
Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
When: Monday, 12 April 2021, 20:00 GMT+6
Meeting Facilitator: @tacitonic
Meeting Note Taker: @ashiquzzaman
Next Meeting: Monday, April 19, 2021, 08:00 PM GMT+6

Project Updates:

From @tacitonic For the Style Guide:
Priority: Completing the last remaining section.
Challenge: Parser inconsistencies.
Big Win: Style Guide was published.
For the Style Guide, @tacitonic completed 20/28 articles in the last section.

From @themiked PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Handbook
Priority: 
1. Applying an external linking policy to pages as appropriate  
2. Picking a single page and applying a style guide to it
Challenge: not losing my mind in syntactic pedagogy
Big Win: the above

@tacitonic inquired about whether the external linking policy finalised, because external linking articles in the style guide are on hold for that.

To which themiked replied – Partial implementation has been done.

@bph no updates

From @justinahinon: For the restructuring of the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor handbook:
Priority (for next quarter): Continue iterating on the current documentation
Challenge: The fact that the doc is synced on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and parsed sometimes leads to challenges (redirections, syncing errors, live updates, etc..)
Big Win: The initial restructuring plan was completed.


Team goals updates:

Q1 team goals updates:

@zzap requesting all project reps to visit the – Team goals for Quarter 1, 2021 post and report progress in the format:

Priority (for next quarter): 
Challenge: 
Big Win:

Google Season of Docs

The team is waiting for Google’s announce of selected projets, which is planned for next Friday.

In the meantime, the comments are still open on the projects ideas list https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2021/03/26/google-season-of-docs-2021-project-ideas-list/


Open Floor

@justinahinon shared tasks French WordPress documentation team is working on, that can be useful for EN docs team – 

the French WordPress documentation team has been working on something really interesting in relation to the user documentation of the editor blocks.

Instead of rewriting the description and functioning of the common options for each block, the French Doc team created pages for those parts which are then reused in the block articles.

For example, block options like advanced settings, typography, colors and parts of the block toolbar are shared by all blocks. Having their docs separate makes it easier to maintain them, and not have to make changes to a dozen or so articles when there is a change in the editor.

@audrasjb made a screenshot with annotations to show how it works.

This is led by @jdy68 and @chaton666

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ashiquzzaman 5:41 pm on April 5, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting April 05 2021

Attendance

@estelaris , @chaion07 , @atachibana ,@tacitonic ,@crstauf , @ashiquzzaman

Housekeeping

Project Updates

No updates from the content side

New Member Mentoring

n/a

Google Season of Docs

@tacitonic completed 20/28 articles for the Word List. 

For this year’s GSoD, the WordPress doc team has to wait till April 16, to know if WordPress is selected as an org this year.

Open Floor/Q&A

@estelaris mentioned that during the project updates, there is a new post about the revision of documentation article is part of the Help Hub redesign series,

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ashiquzzaman 2:29 am on March 23, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting on March 22, 2021

Attendance

@crstauf ,@mazharul , @chaion07 ,@ashiquzzaman ,@justinahinon ,@tacitonic ,@atachiba ,@estelarisestelaris ,@noyeomhou ,@habib919000

Housekeeping

Project Updates

For the contents side, there are no updates for now. @atachibana will fix the check logs issues.

@estelaris is working on reviewing the list of articles. She is also have a 15 min call with matt & Josepha during Q2 Listening Hours to discuss about making documentation better

@tacitonic update from Style Guide project:

Google Season Docs

@justinahinon posted last week –

The doc team has 2 people who are interested in mentoring and no project ideas yet. The doc team is requesting to comment on the posts if anyone has any project idea. Also, the team is coordinating everything about the program on this GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo. The deadline for organizations is March 26 and project ideas are required for the proposal.

@estelaris suggested to review the projects that were proposed last year.

New Member Mentoring

We have 11 new members joining the #docs team since 08 March 2021. Please join me in welcoming
@Apostolos Kourmatzoglou, @Sandip Mondal, @EddAllen, @Shahin Sid, @Sagar B, @Maya Shlayen, @rodrigo, @Laurence Bahiirwa, @Alyssa, @Kerin Khan, @Danielle Gaither

Open Floor

n/a

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Michael Geheren 8:17 pm on March 3, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting on March 1, 2021

Attendance

@chaion07 @ashiquzzaman @justinahinon @bph @zzap @tacitonic @atachibana @geheren @reachmazharul @harishanker @themiked @deadpool76 @atiktonmoy

Housekeeping

Project Updates

HelpHub Redesign

Update from @estelaris – There are no updates on the HelpHub redesign project yet but estelaris still need help with articles link review. All the articles must be reviewed, most are fine and few are not, and those few are the cause of plenty of fix-link requests. If anyone wants to review, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @estelaris. The task is only to identify the wrong links and there is a team in charge of approving and updating the links. @ashiquzzaman showed interest to review the articles

BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Editor Developer Doc

Update from @justinahinon – The table of content pull request (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28665) is ready to be merged.

End User Block Editor team

Update from @bph  –
@geheren and Mathew McCabe had their sprint; @poena had also participated. Discussed the end-user documentation for Full Site Editing. The plan is to wait until the Prototype is released, and then again until BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. of 5.8 to see what will make it into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. WP 5.7 changes are now available in our Spreadsheet and TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board. 

The team is also getting ready to touch almost all pages to implement More Options link/page enable comments and add a note to the change-log as with which WordPress version a page is currently. @Geheren added that to all the pages in the Trello board. Once @collinsmbaka publishes his page, all contributors can start working on it. A plan is in place to welcome new contributors to the team.

Full Site Editing Documentation

Skipped for this meeting.

Codex to HelpHub MigrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.

@atachibana was unavailable to provide an update on this.

New Member Monitoring

@chaion07 reported that 10 new members joined the Docs channel in the past 7 days. The team welcomed all of them. Here is the Slack thread with the list of members.

Monthly Coffee Break

There is a new p2 you can all check out: Docs Team Coffee Break February 2021 Summary.

@chaion07 reported that there have been a total of 5 contributors joining in for February 2021 Coffee Break. Thanks to @thisisyeasin, @Gtarafdarr, @atiktonmoy & @reachmazharul for making time. For those who couldn’t make it you can definitely join the March Coffee Break. Anyone who is willing to host it can ping either @chaion07 or @sukafia

Google Season of Docs

Update from @tacitonic:
Completed 15/28 articles in the Word list and usage dictionary. Parser will be completed by Monday, i.e. today. The project finalization phase for Google Season of Docs begins from today. He’ll start writing a P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. on make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//docs after the final project report. Google Season of Docs 2021: The organization application phase has also begun for this year’s program.

Open Floor

The team discussed using GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ as opposed to other tools, as GitHub would also reduce the use of Trello to some extent. 

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Ahmed Chaion 10:25 am on March 1, 2021
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Docs Team Coffee Break February 2021 Summary

The February Coffee Break took place on the 24th instant at 11 AM UTC timing which saw the presence of 5 contributors from the Global Documentation Team. Kudos to @chaion07 for hosting!

Docs Team Coffee Break for February 2020

I came online at the scheduled time but did not see anyone joining. So I waited and sent a message across my workplace, weDevs which resulted in a few of my colleagues joining instantly.

We mostly talked about how to become a Documentation Contributor and what projects are there to contribute. I tried to answer various questions ranging from the Handbook to the weekly meeting. All contributors were encouraged to attend the weekly meetings.

A few snaps from the coffee break

We thank @atiktonmoy, @thisisyeasin, @reachmazharul & @gtarafdarr for joining the Docs Team Coffee Break for 2021. We invite all of you to join the coffee break for March 2021 as it progresses from planning to execution.

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Ahmed Chaion 3:49 am on January 27, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting: January 25, 2021

Attendance

@crstauf, @milana_cap, @chaion07, @tacitonic, @atachibana, @estelaris, @paaljoachim, @themiked, @clorith, @austinsangs, @justinahinon, @collinsmbaka, @clorith, @reachmazharul, @mdmamun-1, @snilesh, @habib919000, @ashiquzzaman.

Thanks to @chaion07 for facilitating the meeting.

Housekeeping

Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2021/01/25/agenda-for-docs-team-meeting-january-25-2021/

Notetaker: @austinsangs

Notes Reviewed by: @chaion07

Facilitator for the next meeting: @milana_cap

Next Meeting: 01 February 2021

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Team Goals for Q1 2021

@themiked reported that PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Handbook goals are done.

@milana_cap suggested that all reps for different projects make sure that their projects are added in the Team Goals for Q1 2021 document. This should become a regular practice to have goals listed in our handbook as it’s easier to keep track with projects and contributors can see the progress.

@estelaris updated her project goals and will have and will have the first post ready for review before publishing.

@crstauf posted their goals as follows:

  • stay on top of pending user notes: check twice per day.
  • optimize process for handling feedback for doc changes.

Project Updates

  • Obsolete P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. Docs: @themiked suggested that obsolete P2 docs will stay in their place, wrapped with something to indicate their absoluteness. To use the red Warning box short-code along with some phrasing that everyone will then want to modify, but it’s easier to edit than create so that’ll move things along faster. 
  • User Notes: @cstauf mentioned that before the weekend there were no pending user notes. There are however 16 entries for feedback to docs changes that @audrasjb has indicated that he will handle.
  • Migrating from Codex to HelpHub: Content team is migrating and re-routing Codex to Code Reference HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.. 296 out of 355 are completed (83.4% from 80.3% from last week). He thanked @stevenlinx like always.
  • BEE-Docs: @bph posted an update asynchronous to the meeting that the team is making headway page updates after 5.6 release Thanks to @cguntur @bizanimesh @geheren @collinsmbaka. She also thanked @incapit, Tom Rankin and @MathewMcCabe for joining the team and collaborating on updates.
  1. New pages needed    6
  2. WordPress 5.6    44
  3. WordPress 5.5    14
  4. WordPress 5.4    3
  5. WordPress 5.3    2
  6. WordPress 5.0    9
  7. Pre WordPress 5.0    3
  8. The will schedule a team sprint for the first week in February to discuss task list for 5.7 @geheren and I are working on triaging the issues from the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Changelogs 9.3 – 9.9
Figure: BEE-Docs Update

New Member Mentoring

7 new members joined #docs in the week between 16 and 23 November 2020. The mentoring team is contacting the new members. The process is a little slow due to the unavailability of many members who are still not back from their holidays and we can definitely understand that. The mentoring team continues to maintain the process and always appreciate the new members who respond to our messages. Thanks to @chaion7 for the information. He also thanked @sukafia, @tacitonic, @Prubhtej_9, @tomf @MathewMcCabe for continuing the good work.

Monthly Coffee Break Announcement (January 2021)

The first coffee break for 2021 is set to take place on the 28th of January.

@chaion07 will be hosting this coffee break at 3 PM UTC. Details to be posted in  P2.

Google Season of Docs

@tacitonic reported on the following:

  • Almost completed the Developer Content section.
  • The only other section remaining is the A-Z word list/Glossary.
  • Encouraged team members to review and discuss articles in the discussion tab on the repo.

@tacitonic mentioned that as the project deadline is approaching, it would be great if we could get the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to WP Org parser implemented, which would give me some time to work with  errors/issues if any.

Open Floor

@corith referred to a previous message as a reminder posted in the #meta channels: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1610575528265400 @milana_cap acknowledged the topic and added it to her list. She also mentioned of pinging @kenshino about this.

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Collins Mbaka 8:24 am on January 25, 2021
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Summary for Docs Team Meeting on 18 January 2021

Attendance

@atachibana @justinahinon @chaion07 @estelaris @rashid @paaljoachim @tacitonic @snilesh @pradeepdotco @collinsmbaka @thisisyeasin @nahidsharifkomol

Thanks to @justinahinon for facilitating the meeting

Note Taker and Next Meeting facilitator

Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/?p=11003
Notetaker: @collinsmbaka
Facilitator for the next meeting: @chaion07
Next Meeting: 25 January 2021
Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack

Project Updates

@atachibana reported that the Content team is migrating and re-routing Codex to Code Reference HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.: 285 of 355 (80.3% from 78.3%). Big Thanks to @stevenlinx as always.

@justinahinon reported on the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ developer documentation restructuring project. He reported that they are working on the handbook homepage, which is in good progress and the new version will be done in the next few days. @PaalJoachim also reported on the work being done to improve the local development environment for docs with @johnbillion and @justinahinon. he shared a drafted update and his plans to further discuss with the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev team on 20th of January 2021.

@tacitonic reported his update for the Style Guide as follows;

  • I finished the Linking section this week – except for the External Linking document. That is on hold until the policy is finalized.
  • Started the Developer content section.
  • I encourage team members to review and discuss articles in the discussion tab on the repo.

    • @estelaris reported on her work on the documentation redesign; she shared a list of what she has done so far.

    Monthly Coffee Break for January 2021

    The date for this month’s Coffee Break has not been officially fixed and announced but should fall in on the 28th of January, 2021.

    Open floor

    @estelaris has been following up on the redirect links and mentioned that @sergeybiryukov is going to try to fix it for 5.7 as it needs to be fixed in core. Here is the link to the update

    @chaion07 mentioned he isn’t sure but would pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” the #meta team for the weekly meetings calendar to be updated.

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    Ahmed Chaion 3:08 pm on January 18, 2021
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    Summary for Docs Team Meeting on 11 January 2021

    Attendance

    @milana_cap, @estelaris, @paaljoachim, @atachibana, @tacitonic, @shitalmarakana @chaion07, @bph, @justinahinon, @aurangajeb, @themiked

    Thanks to @milana_cap for Facilitating the Meeting.

    Notetaker & Facilitator Selection
    Project Updates
    • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Handbook by @themiked: Minimal changes, need to ratify the external linking policy document. According to Mike, all previous owners have just made changes as appropriate without asking, and nobody noticed.
    • Design for Documentation by @estelaris: Planning on finishing the design for documentation in the first quarter. Need to gather the final results from the reclassification project, other requirements I picked up from diverse meetings and put together my recommendation for final design. You will see a few discussion posts before the design proposal, aimed between the last week of March- first week of April.
    • BEE-Docs by @bph: Caught up on our articles to make them current with 5.5 and started working on 5.6 updates and create new pages. Started to open up the feedback for more pages. Definitely need instructions, how we would like to handle things. The team is now working via TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing., Google Docs. Kudos to all who keep working away on the to-do lists. The ‘Thanksgiving Sprint’ which was a great way to get a lot of things done and connect with contributors, especially new ones. This will definitely be repeated and hopefully can be an ongoing team exercise. Kudos to @geheren for taking up a quite a few pages and work on them.Challenges: We don’t yet have a fluid system on keeping pace with the rapid development of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ and for adoption of FSE for 2021 the team needs help from the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-editor team to at least have a rough draft of documentation coming from the developers, that we can follow and extend for End-User.
    • External Linking Policy by @milana_cap: Finally made some visible progress even though it was rather slow at the beginning
    • Google Season of Docs by @estelaris: One project finished and another is due to finish by Q1 2021 by @tacitonic. He finished the lengthiest section in the style guide – the Formatting section, started writing a spinoff section on Linking and encouraged team members to review and discuss articles in discussion tab on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.
    Goals for Next Quarter

    Milana thinks that The Team can start with some rough ideas where each project should be in March. Not just projects but processes as well. Plugin Handbook should finish the second phase: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2020/12/01/external-linking-policy-1st-review-of-plugin-developer-handbook/ The main idea here is to think about direction for each project and some sort of measurable progress at the end of each period.

    It’s Birgit’s first year on the team, so she’s not sure what’s the ‘usual’ process is. On Community team, there is a post asking for suggestions from the whole community, like the wishlist for the new release and then the team organizes the suggestions and translate them to goal statements, and picks their priorities.

    Estela points out the goals for Design: Documentation design proposal – Q1

    • P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. new requests – Week 03
    • P2 new classification – Week 05
    • P2 on final navigation – Week 07
    • P2 on templates draft – Week 10
    • P2 proposal new design for documentation – Week 13
    Open Floor

    @estelaris feared to collaborate with the #meta team but at the same time is planning to annoy them until they reply. @bph mentioned that #Meta team is working on a Pattern Directory that is exciting for a lot of us.

    @tacitonic was looking at ways to insert an icon inline to indicate that a link is going to an external site. Reference: https://developers.google.com/style/cross-references#out-page

    #meeting-notes, #meetings, #summary

    Estela Rueda 1:47 pm on December 17, 2020
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    Summary for Docs team on December 07, 2020

    Attendance

    @chaion07, @bph, @paaljoachim, @atachibana, @mkaz, @tacitonic, @estelaris, @tjnowell, @fahimmurshed, @kenshino, @joyously,

    Thanks to @chaion07 for facilitating the meeting.

    Housekeeping

    Project updates

    • @atachibana reported that the contents team continued migrating and re-routing Codex to Code Reference, and in this week we processed: HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.: 224 of 355 (63.1 % from 56.1% the last week) by @stevenlinx and @Mathew McCabe
    • External Linking Policy – there was a lack of input from the team on the post but we have a deadline so for the first review of PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Developer Handbook we have two reviewers (even though we are aiming for 3) – @themiked and myself. I’ve already done the one for “undoubtedly allowed” links. @themiked please do yours this week if you can so that we can start applying results and keep the deadline by the end of this year.
    • GSoD Documentation Style Guide – I’m working on manifest.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. file which is needed for parsing GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ markdown files to our very new Style Guide Handbook. Once I finish it, I’ll pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” some good people from metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. to run it for the first time. Really looking forward to seeing this one.
    • We are asking all #docs team members to read the above post about External Linking Policy. We need your decisions and votes. As it is now, this will be a “two persons” decision.

    :bee: -docs update
    We have still three orphan pages on our to-do-list for 5.6

    • Updates: Image blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. page
    • new page: Image Editing features
    • Updates to Latest Posts
    • New contributor @incapit works on their first page.
    • Another new contributor will be on-boarded this week.
    • Experienced contributors are progressing in their work. @newyorkerlaura, @cguntur @bizanimesh, @collinsmbaka @geheren

    New meeting time and holiday break announcement

    The team chose to change the weekly meeting time to 14:00 UTC and this is the last meeting of the year 2020. We will reconvene again on 11 January 2021 at 14:00 UTC.

    Monthly Coffee Break December 2020

    After some discussion, we decided to skip the coffee break this month as it is too tight between the holidays and the State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/..

    Google Season of Docs

    Style Guide by @tacitonic

    • @milana_cap started with the manifest file for the Style Guide.
    • I’m currently writing the Formatting section.

    Classification project by @dmivelli

    • I’ve reviewed the New Classification Recs tab on our worksheet.
    • I created new columns with subcategory suggestions for WP overview and Technical docs.
    • I’m still working on the Technical docs column.
    • I’ll continue this week and check in on progress by next weekend.
    • Link to the spreadsheet. We ask that peeps do not change anything, but feel free to add comments.
    • Also, the final reports by mentors and technical writer were submitted to Google last week.

    There was a discussion as to what language (American English) is the basis of the style guide and there will be a focus on internationalizing the language. Also, the discussion area in GH is open, feel free to leave your comments there.

    Discussion: Clarification about the use of GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. by WordPress plugins and themes

    There was a discussion previous to the meeting on Slack. The conclusion is to point docs to the license page. @themiked clarified that the license question asked a few weeks back was mashed out and the license page for the plugin handbook was updated to include a link to the general WP license page and suggested the same approach is taken for the theme handbook.

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    Justin Ahinon 5:02 pm on December 11, 2020
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    Summary for Docs team on December 07, 2020

    Housekeeping

    Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2020/12/04/agenda-for-docs-team-meeting-december-07-2020
    Notetaker: @justinahinon
    Facilitator for the next meeting: @chaion07
    Next meeting: December 14, 2020
    Find the full meeting transcript here.

    Project updates

    @atachibana shared that contents team are migrating and re-routing Codex to Code Reference, and for this week the progress are: HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.: 199 of 355 (56.1% ← 43.1%) by @stevenlinx and @collinsmbaka as always. Akira is also working on removing duplicated method information in class references.

    @milana_cap called for attention on this post related to the first review of the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Developer Handbook. Please read and add your feedback in the post comments.

    @justinahinon mentioned that he posted the recap as well as the recording of the meeting about GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ developer documentation restructuring. The post also contains the next steps to move forward on the project.

    @bph shared that all tasks are assigned for the WordPress 5.6 update (released on December 08), and that the team working on them.

    New Member Mentoring

    @tacitonic shared that 6 people have joined the docs channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. since the previous meeting.

    Monthly Coffee Break

    The team is still planning this month coffee break. If you want to facilitate or participate, please leave a comment on this post.

    New Meeting Times and Holiday Planning for Docs Team

    New meetings time and holiday planning for the documentation team are published here: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2020/12/02/new-meeting-time-holiday-planning. Feel free to comment if you have anything to bring to the team attention about this topic.

    Google Season of Docs 2020

    @tacitonic shared the updates about this project:

    @dmivelli mentioned that her works on Google Season of Docs is officially done. She completed the project report and is now working on the evaluations. She is also planning to review pillars and categorizations starting next week and will provide updates in upcoming meeting project updates section.

    Clarification about the use of GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. by WordPress plugins and themes

    This comment by @tbenyons about the documentation about the use of GPL within the WordPress project was brought to the attention. @themiked is reaching out to @ipstenu to have more information about WordPress project legal contacts.

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