Francesca Marano 1:55 pm on November 4, 2021  

Core Team Update: October 2021

Releases

In October, work on WordPress 5.9 continued as planned.

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

  • Contributors from Yoast and Google proposed to create a Performance team. Given the positive reponse, a meeting was scheduled and you can read the agenda (and – spoiler alert, because it will go in the November post – a recap)
  • Time to get new team representatives for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Nominations for Core Team Reps 2022
  • Do you want a more granular recap of what is going on in Core? Don’t miss the “A week in Core” posts that @audrasjb has been publishing regularly.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 11:09 pm on November 3, 2021
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Plugin Review Team Status: 1 Nov 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 : 136
  • Plugins rejected : 103
  • Plugins closed : 35
  • Plugins approved : 66

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 734
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 641
  • → (2021-10-25 – 2021-11-01) : 53
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 1
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 733

Helpscout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 352
  • New Conversations: 228
  • Customers: 279
  • Conversations per Day: 44
  • Busiest Day: Friday
  • Email Conversations: 228
  • Messages Received: 461
  • Replies Sent: 490
  • Emails Created: 125
  • Resolved: 186
  • Resolved on First Reply: 31%

#plugins

Stefanos Togoulidis 11:18 am on November 2, 2021
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Mobile Team Update – November 2nd

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 18.6 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: Help screen and new-block badge shipped to all users. Shipped support for the mark 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. tag.
  • Infrastructure: Started working on improvements to the localization toolchain.

#mobile

KafleG 2:24 am on November 2, 2021
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Themes team update November 02, 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
    • 1 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 2 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 8 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 0 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 312 tickets were opened
  • 322 tickets were closed:
    • 310 tickets were made live.
      • 31 new Themes were made live.
      • 279 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 12 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4

HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 14Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 09Emails Created 0
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 83%

#themes, #weekly-updates

Tonya Mork 2:32 pm on November 1, 2021
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Test Team Update for 1 Nov 2021

Notables

This week, the team will focus on 5.9 features and enhancements ahead of the 9 Nov Feature Freeze.

Test Ticket Queue

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

Current totals:

  • Needs reproduce issue: 1488 (change: +11)
  • Patches needing testing: 215 (change: +2)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 126 (change: -1)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 139 (change: +5)
  • Tagged as needs testing info: 9 (change: +1)

New/changes In last 7 days:

  • Needs reproduce issue: 9 (change: +3)
  • Patches needing testing: 16 (change: +6)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -2)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 10 (change: +1)
  • Tagged as needs testing info: 1 (change: -1)

Closed in last 7 days:

  • Could not reproduce issue: 2 (change: -4)
  • Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
  • Unit tests for patches:
    • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
    • Have unit tests & need review: 2 (change: 0)
  • 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
  • Overview of the 5.9 Test Leads’ Approach
  • FSE Program CfT (Call for Testing) Summary: Pattern Party
  • Hallway Hangout: 5.9 Go/No Go, Site Editor IA, and Navigation Editor and 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. work

#test

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 11:38 pm on October 26, 2021
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Plugin Review Team Update – 25 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 : 134
  • Plugins rejected : 8
  • Plugins closed : 38
  • Plugins approved : 67

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 789
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 714
  • → (2021-10-18 – 2021-10-25) : 53
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 0
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 789

Helpscout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 393
  • New Conversations: 235
  • Customers: 322
  • Conversations per Day: 43
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Email Conversations: 235
  • Messages Received: 557
  • Replies Sent: 667
  • Emails Created: 148
  • Resolved: 239
  • Resolved on First Reply: 25%

#plugins

Courtney Engle Robertson 6:17 pm on October 26, 2021  

Training Team Update October 26 2021

At the end of the month, the team reviews our monthly Sprint progress as a retrospective. Noteable items this month include:

Learn.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/ content created and published:

Learn Content – 9 video workshops completed this month

  1. Managing Spam on Your Website
  2. Best Practices for Capturing Images
  3. Customer Taglines
  4. How to Create a Post or Page with the WordPress Block Editor
  5. Managing Settings: Writing
  6. How to Submit a Workshop
  7. Using the Block Widget Editor 
  8. Managing Settings: Reading
  9. How to Submit a Lesson Plan

Learn Maintenance – 11 issues closed on GitHub most notably

Events (excluding routine team)

KafleG 11:07 am on October 25, 2021
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Themes team update October 25, 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
  • 17 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 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,

  • 290 tickets were opened
  • 312 tickets were closed:
    • 291 tickets were made live.
      • 33 new Themes were made live.
      • 258 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 20 tickets were not-approved.
    • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 3

HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 25Messages Received 21
Replies Sent 35Emails Created 18
Resolved 9Resolved on First Reply 89%

#themes, #weekly-updates

Josepha 6:22 pm on October 22, 2021
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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

Stefanos Togoulidis 10:34 am on October 19, 2021
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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