Tellyworth 4:54 am on March 18, 2022  

In last week’s Meta meeting,…

In last week’s 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. meeting, we discussed the idea of more directly involving community teams in the Meta components most relevant to them.

In particular, we’d like to explore the idea of each Meta component having a liason or maintainer appointed by the relevant team. Someone from the Support team assigned to the Support Forum component, for example, and a Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. member on both Translate Site and Rosetta.

Those liasons would be expected to help triage tickets, set priorities, and identify the issues that are most important to the team. They would not be expected to fix the issues themselves.

I’d like to invite all teams to offer their feedback and suggestions on the idea. If any teams have contributors who would like to volunteer to try it out in practice, I don’t see any reason we can’t start a trial more or less immediately.

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Tellyworth 5:41 am on March 16, 2022  

Coming soon: Block Pattern Directory Submissions

Last year we launched the Block Pattern Directory, a curated selection of beautiful and useful block patterns hosted on 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/ and usable directly from the post editor in any WordPress site.

The main screen of the WordPress.org block pattern directory.

Soon we plan to open the Pattern Directory to submissions from the public. The Pattern Creator page will allow designers and content creators to build, edit, and submit their best 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. patterns to the directory. Approved patterns will be added to the directory, where they will be instantly available to the authors of millions of WordPress sites.

The Pattern Creator editor page, after submitting a newly created pattern.

The Pattern Creator is expected to launch next week. In the meantime, we’d like to invite designers, theme developers, and anyone else who loves creating block patterns, to help test the submission process and start submitting and publishing patterns early. If creating and sharing block patterns with the whole world sounds like something you’d love to do, you can get started now.

Information for other community teams:

The Pattern Directory is open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL.. You can participate in its development in the pattern-directory GitHub repository. Suggestions and feedback are welcome 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/ or in comments on this post. Please report any issues you find by filling out a bug report.

Estela Rueda 6:27 pm on March 10, 2022
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Tellyworth 5:16 am on February 24, 2022  

Meta Trac Ticket Focus, Feb 24

In this week’s Meta Chat we agreed to try focusing on the ten oldest 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. tickets with a has-patch keyword. (See here for background context).

Our goal for the next two weeks is to make some progress on these tickets. That might mean one or more of the following:

  • Assigning the ticket to someone who has volunteered to work on it.
  • Testing the patch and commenting with results.
  • Adding a fresh workflow keyword like needs-refresh or commit.
  • Removing stale keywords and milestones.
  • Discussing and deciding on the next steps.
  • Updating the priority.

The 10 tickets currently in that report are:

Note that the Custom Query link above is dynamic so its contents will change as we work on tickets; the static list of tickets in this post is the ten that we’re focusing on till the next meeting. If it will help then I’ll add these ten to a milestone for easier tracking.

Our modest goal is simply to get those tickets moving along further towards completion. If you’re looking for a place to ask questions or for general discussion about these tickets then the #meta 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/. is a good place for that. We’ll review how the process went at the next Meta meeting in March.

Additionally, the Meta team is looking for volunteers to run a regular ticket triage session. If you’re interested then please comment here or in #meta.

Estela Rueda 7:47 pm on February 20, 2022
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Angela Jin 11:15 am on February 10, 2022
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New WordPress Make Team: the Photo Directory

The WordPress Photo Directory recently hit 1,317 photos, and continues to grow very quickly! As volunteer moderators have reviewed numerous submissions, there have been growing realizations and many thoughts around how to best support the longevity of the Photo Directory. To work through these next steps, I’d like to request the following: 

  • Create a new 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/. channel, titled #photos, where we can start coordinating in the open
  • A new site on the Make network, `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//photos/`
  • Two handbooks: one public, and one private*

The current volunteer moderators are very excited to expand the team and grow the Photo Directory into a vast, high-quality resource for the WordPress community! Please join us in the new Slack channel once available.

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Thanks @coffee2code, @michelleames, @cagrimmett, @mdburnette, @topher1kenobe for reviewing this post!


*The private handbook will be made available to photo directory moderators. While it is unlikely that WordPress community members will submit inappropriate content, curators of user-submitted content do need to have certain processes in place in the event that happens.

Angela Jin 6:17 pm on January 13, 2022
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WordPress Photo Directory: Call for Volunteers

As announced in 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/. 2021, WordPress now has a Photo Directory! The Photo Directory is both a curated source for high-quality images and a new submission tool for Openverse, powered by the WordPress community. 

How you can help

The Photo Directory hasn’t fully launched yet. However there are already three ways you can help!

The first way is to contribute your photos. Do you own some exceptional, blog-worthy photos you’d like to offer to the community? You can submit those photos here.

The second way is to report issues. The Photo Directory is new and will continue to be built. If you run into any issues when using it, you can log an issue. 

Contributing photos and reporting issues can be a one time contribution or as many as you’d like.

The third way is to become a Photo Directory Moderator. To help maintain and grow the Photo Directory, Moderators are needed to help review and approve submitted photos. Moderators will also be able to inform and refine the moderation process. 

If you are interested in becoming a Photo Directory Moderator, this is a great time to do so, as moderation practices and tools are being discussed and developed. Anyone is welcome to contribute in this way, although it is particularly helpful if you already have experience with: 

  • Photography
  • Excellent communication in open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. communities
  • Moderation best practices

Photo Directory Moderators can expect to spend 1-2 hours in coming weeks learning about the Photo Directory and current moderation tools, and discussing future best practices. To keep the Photo Directory a thriving resource, Moderators are needed for the foreseeable future, perhaps dedicating up to an hour of their time each week. 

If you are interested in becoming a moderator, please leave a comment expressing your interest in the comments, or you can reach out to @angelasjin or @coffee2code in the WordPress 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/..

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Tellyworth 1:55 am on January 5, 2022  

Discussion: Meta focuses in 2022

In the last Meta chat of 2021, we reviewed our use of component focuses in 2021, and discussed some alternatives.

To recap briefly, in 2021 we chose a different Meta component on which to focus attention for the two weeks between biweekly [fortnightly] chats. That had mixed results; in some cases we were successful in cleaning up tickets in those components, and starting or refreshing work on various tasks. In other cases, no notable progress was made.

Some of what we learned through the process:

  • Components vary widely in their size, complexity, and access limitations.
  • Focusing attention on a component doesn’t mean anyone is available to work on it.
  • It is a good way to uncover forgotten tickets and low-hanging fruit.
  • It’s not always clear what to do with tickets that aren’t immediately actionable.
  • Two weeks is not very long!

If we’re going to continue with the idea of focuses, let’s discuss ways of improving the process. For example:

  • Are there other focus groupings we should try, besides components?
  • What goals should we set?
  • Are there ways we can improve our chances of success and progress?

The next 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. chat is 2022-01-12 21:00:00 UTC. That gives us roughly a week to discuss ideas and come up with a plan for the first focus of 2022. Discussion and suggestions are welcome in comments on this post, or in the #meta 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/..

Update: This week’s meeting is cancelled; we’ll discuss it next time.

Ryan Marks 6:33 am on December 7, 2021
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Hugh Lashbrooke 12:59 am on November 16, 2021
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Request: New Social Learning Slack channel

Since Learn WordPress was launched in December 2020, one of the focuses of the platform has been to enable live, synchronous learning experiences. These were initially formalised as discussion groups, but have since evolved to the more general name “social learning”. More info here: https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/

The events, known as social learning spaces, are live sessions where people learn together in multiple formats – discussions, workshops, webinars, ride-alongs, work-alongs, etc. These are currently been done over Zoom, which is fine for the most part, but in order to be more accessible and available, it would be great if text-based spaces could be run too. The most logical place for those would be the WordPress 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/., so I’d like to request that we add a new Slack channel named #social-learning.

This new channel would be reserved for these live, synchronous events and nothing else – it means that all attendees would need to join Slack in order to take part.

For some context, when discussion groups were still relatively new, some were initially done in this text-based format using the #community-events channel. However, since the Training team has now taken ownership of this side of the project, it makes more sense to break them into a separate place and have their own dedicated space.

I’ll leave this request open for feedback until Friday, 19 November @ 2am UTC, after which feedback will be collated and, if there are no objections or issues, the new channel can be created.

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