Meeting Agenda for October 18, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held at 19UTC on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, and @ courane01 will be hosting.

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

Meta Meta 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. news

• Projects
  • Are there any new projects in Meta currently being worked on?
    • WP Playground Live Demo on Plugin Repo (Retroactively, this was opened, deployed Deploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. , and rolled back) Related:
      • Opt-in Live Preview and External Demo Links for WordPress.org Plugin Repository
      • Themes: offer an opt in prepackaged live preview option for block themes
      • Playground and # meta-playground
• Meta Posts
  • Updates to global header and footer navigation
  • Revitalizing the WordPress Showcase
• Trac Trac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ . & GitHub GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/
  • Sites
    • Homepage and Global
      • Footer: Revisit footer links and categorize (Now closed)
      • Local nav and breadcrumbs create duplicate links to the homepage
      • Optimize frontend resources for performance
    • WordCamp WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more .
      • CSS layout issues on the “Sponsorship Grants Report” page (GitHub PR)
      • Geolocate user and center map
      • Allow searching events by country etc
      • Map marker modal misaligned
    • Showcase Query Filter: cannot shift+tab away when filter is focused ( Accessibility Accessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility ) )
    • Showcase  Homepage: Showcase CTA Improvement
  • Plugin Plugin 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 Repo
    • Plugin Directory shows broken links to pagination above the limit (closed)
  • DevDocs
    • Feeback design is not proper
  • Core Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. / Gutenberg Gutenberg 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/
    • About Page for 6.4 Release
    • Image Commits @ jorbin
  • Polyglots
    • Add locale mapping to DeePL API requests
  • Trac
    • Add emoji reaction to trac comments
    • Alignment issue on all tickets listing pages.
    • @ bedas asks about editing Trac tickets
  • Profiles Pages / Badging
    • Fix badge circle
  • Photos Directory
    • Adding something a “skip” or “next” in moderator dashboard for moderators to move images
  • Other
    • Ofiicial Mastodon account
• Core / Gutenberg
  • About Page for 6.4 Release
  • Image Commits @ jorbin
• Slack Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/ . The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ . Conversations
  • @ presskopp asks “for https://de.wordpress.org/remembers/  – what about adding a reminder ribbon to the profiles of them that passed away?” @ coffee2code is there a badging Trac/GitHub area to document this?
  • @ starbuck has Questions and errors
  • @ ocean90 will handle IP info for WordCamp Germany’s Contributor Day Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ .
  • Is there a list of plugins that can be enabled on Make team sites? Where can we document the process for setting up team sites? ( questions )
  • GitHub automation @ peiraisotta

Still Open

September 20, 2023

• #7269: Add Accessibility Checker plugin to .org sites
  • We have a precedent of using Jetpack premium, and also Sensei Pro on LearnWP.
  • How do we go about getting a decision made to at least do a review for feasibility?
  • Discern who will review for feasibility.
• #7196: Contributor Mentorship Program – Graduate and Facilitator Badge
  • @nao  Requests assistance for this to be completed

October 4, 2023

• Highlight unofficial State of Enterprise WordPress Survey on wordpress.org/enterprise
  • The survey now appears 2x on the page, once at the top pointing to Crowd Signal, and once lower in an image link pointing to  SOEWP site  that the agencies involved are promoting.
• Theme Search is broken.
  • @otto42  “I have been unable to duplicate this and the explanations given seem to be correct, mainly in that it’s a caching thing…As for the appearance of the load more button or not, that is likely a problem with the theme directory theme itself. The theme directory theme needs a overhaul basically”
• Access for Slack pings
  • @ipstenu  indicated a willingness to assist and seeking documentation on how to do so.  @otto42  indicated he would guide Mika.

Cross-team news

• WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate 1
• WP-CLI v2.9.0 release date: October 25th
• WordPress 6.3 PHP Compatibility
• New support guidelines
• Meta-Playground supports Beta/RC

Other news

Open Floor

Contribute

• Wanted: Volunteers for Recap Notes