Team Rep Nominations

If you haven’t done so already, it is time to start the process to select new reps for your teams!

The Role

Each team has one or two representatives, abbreviated as “reps”. Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the group to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional chats.

As a reminder, it is not called “team lead” for a reason. While the people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. role is designed to change hands regularly.

The Process

The process generally just has three steps:
1. Make a call for nominations.
2. Vote on the people who accepted the nominations.
3. Announce and rejoice!

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments!

#planning #nominations

Mobile Team Update – October 19th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 18.5 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the 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. program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on “Become a beta tester”.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

  • 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: Pasting an embeddable url into an empty paragraph block creates an embed block.
  • Full Site Editing: Added theme colors on Pullquote block, Search block and HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. Mode and font size support for the Button, Preformatted and Heading blocks. Also fixed a site design issue causing the homepage image to be cut off.
  • Other projects: We completed updating WPAndroid and its dependencies to Android 11 (SDK 30), and we fixed a crash in WPAndroid when picking media from the device. On WPiOS we completed the new comment Moderation Bar.
  • Infrastructure: Implemented Publish to s3 and Composite Build support for Aztec-Android, wrapping up Android Modularization Phase 2.

#mobile

Themes team update October 19, 2021

Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 21 tickets are assigned.
    • 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 2 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 2 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 6 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 0 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 270 tickets were opened
  • 274 tickets were closed:
    • 254 tickets were made live.
      • 27 new Themes were made live.
      • 227 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 19 tickets were not-approved.
    • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4


HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 1Messages Received 5
Replies Sent 3Emails Created 0
Resolved 1Resolved on First Reply 100%

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugin Review Team Update – 18 Oct 2021

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 143
  • Plugins rejected : 12
  • Plugins closed : 63
  • Plugins approved : 54

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 778
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 694
  • → (2021-10-11 – 2021-10-18) : 68
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 0
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 778

Helpscout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 478
  • New Conversations: 320
  • Customers: 352
  • Conversations per Day: 59
  • Busiest Day: Wednesday
  • Email Conversations: 320
  • Messages Received: 566
  • Replies Sent: 685
  • Emails Created: 187
  • Resolved: 269
  • Resolved on First Reply: 35%

#plugins

Training Team Update 15 October 2021

Learn WordPress Content & Functionality

As a team, we track all content and functionality updates on our monthly Sprint posts. Come see what new material and site functionality we’ve shipped, and what we’re working on next.

Future-proofing content: Preparing Learn site content for future WordPress updates.

Docs and Training teams have a huge need to quickly assess what content should be revised with a major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality.. We’re organizing content based with internal use taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. with labels for each WordPress feature.

Call for feedback on these issues:

  1. PROPOSAL: Learner achievements on profiles
  2. PROPOSAL: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress

Team Organization

  1. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team

Growth and Contribution

We’ve recently hosted 2 contributor days in conjunction with Five for the Future organizations:

X-post: Proposal for a Performance team

X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/core: Comment on Proposal for a Performance team

Test Team Update for 11 Oct 2021

Notables

Last week, the team:

Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

  • Needs reproduce issue: 1477 (change: -14)
  • Patches needing testing: 213 (change: -1)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 127 (change: 0)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 134 (change: +4)
  • Tagged as needs testing info: 8 (change: 0)

New/changes In last 7 days:

  • Needs reproduce issue: 8 (change: +3)
  • Patches needing testing: 9 (change: +3)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -2)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 7 (change: -1)
  • Tagged as needs testing info: 2 (change: +2)

Closed in last 7 days:

  • Could not reproduce issue: 3 (change: -7)
  • Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 0 (change: -2)
  • Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

  • Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
  • Call for Feedback (CoF) Summary: FSE Program’s block theme switching
  • Live working sessions:
    • Hallway Hangout held for a causal walkthrough of the current call for testing patterns
    • Fixing and testing a filesystem infinite loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. and PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. 8.1 (YouTube | Trac)

#test

Themes team update October 12, 2021

Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 20 tickets are assigned.
    • 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 3 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 4 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 9 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 1 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 298 tickets were opened
  • 310 tickets were closed:
    • 285 tickets were made live.
      • 30 new Themes were made live.
      • 255 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 25 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4


HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 3Messages Received 2
Replies Sent 1Emails Created 1
Resolved 0Resolved on First Reply 0%

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugin Review Team Update – 11 Oct 2021

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 124
  • Plugins rejected : 3
  • Plugins closed : 63
  • Plugins approved : 44

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 760
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 679
  • → (2021-10-04 – 2021-10-11) : 59
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 0
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 760

Helpscout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 442
  • New Conversations: 331
  • Customers: 267
  • Conversations per Day: 55
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Email Conversations: 267
  • Messages Received: 532
  • Replies Sent: 642
  • Emails Created: 148
  • Resolved: 245
  • Resolved on First Reply: 29%

#plugins

Core Team Update: September 2021

Releases

In September, work on WordPress 5.9 continued and WordPress 5.8.1 was released.

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//Full Site Editing (FSE)

Miscellaneous blog posts, updates, and discussions published in the Core Blog