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  • Eric Amundson 1:07 am on September 7, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Docs Team Update for Sept 6, 2013 

    This Week

    • @DrewAPicture created a draft of the Codex article we discussed last week for Inserting Media into Posts and Pages. He said he’s still got a bit to do, but it’s looking terrific.  Thanks Drew!
    • @DrewAPicture and @kimparsell also “finalized(ish)” the PHP inline documentation standards.
    • Inline Docs has focused on documenting hooks. @kimparsell and @DrewAPicture are leading the charge on improving/adding missing functional docs.  Also, they’re on fire!
    • @jazzs3quence and @siobhan need feedback on the Admin Help videos. Join them on IRC in #wordpress-sfd on Mondays at 16:30 UTC.
    • Handbooks: despite last week’s report, we’ve got nothing.  @sewmyheadon will inventory both Handbooks and accompanying spreadsheets and provide updates ASAP.
    • Plugin Developer Handbook needs volunteers.  Contact @hanni, @siobhan or me if you can help.
    • Working on organizing monthly Docs Improvement Meetups in Seattle, on IRC, and hopefully, in your town too.  More to come . . .

    More detail in the Docs Chat Summary.

     

  • Amy Hendrix (sabreuse) 5:28 pm on September 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Community + Events update for Sept. 6 

    Events + Community P2 merger – latest progress is here: http://make.wordpress.org/community/2013/09/05/importing-events/

    We had our first weekly meeting as a team. We’ll be meeting regularly on Thursdays. Logs for this week: https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-contribute&day=2013-09-05&sort=asc#m7335

    Ongoing projects, and calls for new volunteers/projects

    • Amy coordinating troubleshooting curriculum 2.0
    • Courtney wrangling the Theme School materials
    • Jen putting out the call for new volunteers for diversity, education outreach, and community management

    This week in WordCamps:

    • 17 videos published to WordPress.tv
    • 288 WordCamp tickets sold
    • WordCamp Detroit was cancelled
    • WordCamp Baroda was approved for pre-planning
    • WordCamp Wroclaw opened ticketing
    • requested interviews with some applicants to take over Sao Paulo and an applicant in Dayton
    • Announced volunteers helping respond to WordCamp applications: http://make.wordpress.org/events/2013/08/30/wordcamp-central-now-has-a-team-of-volunteers/
    • met with the organizing team of WP Weekend PHX to discuss them coming under the WordCamp umbrella
    • re-ordered WordPress stickers for WordCamp swag
    • WordCamp Cape Town organizers wrote a payment gateway for CampTix to be able to interface with local South African payment processor PayFast

    Coming week:

    • write a checklist for reviewing WordCamp web sites & recruit some volunteers for that
    • get shipping info for WordCamps to multi-event sponsors so they can ship swag
    • interview Dayton & Sao Paulo applicants
    • nag some WordCamps about posting their videos to wp.tv
    • more posts to the WordCamp Central blog
    • write a spec for WordCamp ratings system on Central
    • continue to support the 20 camps in planning and 15 camps in pre-planning
     

  • mordauk 12:08 am on September 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Plugins Update, September 5, 2013 

    We have opted for me to stay on as lead plugin’s rep for another term.

    Plugins Directory stats for the last week:

    Requested :168
    Rejected : 44
    Closed: 13
    Approved: 71

    Commits by plugin authors: 2633
    Currently in the request queue: 127 (12 older than one week; 108 with no replies)

    Plugins support email stats for the last week:

    Currently open: 33 (5 with no activity in the last week)

     

  • Sam Sidler 11:40 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Meta Team Update: September 5 

    There wasn’t much to report last week, so I didn’t do an update. Over the past two weeks, we did quite a bit of triage of core trac tickets. The list of meta tickets in the core trac is now down to 19 open tickets, with a few that need to be migrated still and a few that will end their lives on in core trac.

    Beyond that, work is continuing on both developer.wordpress.org and the make.wordpress.org homepage, with some development done on each.

    On the dev.wp.org front, the code reference is in alpha mode now, courtesy @nacin (e.g., wp_insert_post()), and will need more development and design work going forward. I’ve filed a number of tickets based on @nacin‘s list of “what’s next” so we can move forward. All of those items need help (code so far is viewable here). Meanwhile, designs are being drawn up by @saracannon for the main developer.wordpress.org homepage as well as the handbooks.

    For the make.wordpress.org homepage, some work was started between @jenmylo, @georgestephanis, and @otto42 at WordCamp Birmingham two weekends ago. We’re still working on getting a specification up for comment, but that should come soon.

    Outside of those things, the following meta tickets need feedback from the following teams. Note that some already have comments, but could always use more discussion at team meetings:

    In general, we recommend teams follow their related components. For example, the support team should follow tickets filed in the Support Forums component. The plugin team should follow tickets filed in the Plugins Directory component. Let me know if I can help you find tickets for your team.

     

  • Jen Mylo 11:01 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Sister Projects 

    At the community summit, we talked about finding a way to bridge the gap between the contributor groups here and the communities working on sister projects like bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress, which are all considered “official” but are still separate software projects (despite lots of personnel overlap). One of the suggestions we talked about was having a rep from each project report here and join team reps for chats etc, but we never really moved forward on that.

    I’m going to reach out to the leads of each project and see what they think about participating more closely with the wordpress.org contributor groups represented here. In the meantime, current reps, could you discuss with your teams and see if anyone has any concerns about this idea? We’ll take a yea/nay vote next week on how to proceed.

    Related: http://make.wordpress.org/updates/2013/09/05/new-team-reps/#comment-3298

     

  • Jen Mylo 6:36 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    New Team Reps 

    For teams that sent in two names, per the previous discussion only one is going to be the listed rep for these next 3 months. Having a backup that can fill in if you’re sick can be at the discretion of the team dynamic how you want that to work.

    Documentation: Eric Amundson (new)
    Support: Jan Dembowski (new)
    Theme Review: Emil
    Plugin Review: Pippin
    Mobile: Isaac
    Meta: Sam
    Community Outreach: Amy
    Polyglots: Remkus He promised they will do updates this time. :)
    Core: TBD, they talked about it in yesterday’s dev chat and I posted to make/core asking for result

    Accessibility: Joseph O’Connor
    Why is accessibility listed differently? At previous team rep discussions we talked about only having team reps for groups responsible for specific products/things, and having groups that were more aspect-based that might contribute to multiple product teams (such as accessibility and UI) get their reporting done via the teams where the specific actions were relevant, so that they’d be more hooked in to the main groups and the updates would be grouped by product. We can discuss this again if feelings have changed, but in the meantime I’ll go ahead and list Accessibility here as a standalone until such time that we do the legwork necessary to make sure their updates are being covered by the product teams.

    I’ll get in touch with each team rep this week to confirm their understanding of the role, and will re-write the description on the about page.

     

    • Emil Uzelac 6:38 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks Jen :)

    • Jose Castaneda 7:43 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Awesome! Keep up the good work folks! :)

    • Marko Heijnen 8:51 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’m really curious how this process went. It seems the open way of choosing has gone for some groups.

      • Jen Mylo 9:52 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Process decisions were here: http://make.wordpress.org/updates/2013/08/21/meeting-notes-from-81313/

        Basically, it came down to each team deciding the best way for them. For some with only a handful of active members, a chat is enough to nail it down with consensus. For others with a lot, nominations and a poll might be desired. Having the voting be open to people who are not contributors on the team kind of defeats the purpose of having the person rep the active members, so it made more sense to make the selection process be flexible and trust the teams to make their decisions together. Most teams posted their choice after a weekly team chat. That said, in all cases the rep chosen does get agreed on (via whatever method) by the active team.

        • Marko Heijnen 10:05 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          I’m an active member of Polyglots but I have no idea how the voting went. Otherwise I wouldn’t have left me comment here.
          I have no clue how all groups elected their rep but there should always be a post on P2 showing where it will be decided. Also the place where it will be decided should be an open place where people can join like P2 or IRC. Not having this defeats the purpose of having a rep since he/she doesn’t have to have the support of the (active) members.

          • Jen Mylo 10:40 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            Ah, polyglots was a special case, my bad. Everyone else was in public irc and/or blog (mostly irc I think). Polyglots never posted a single update here over the past six months, and when I spoke to Remkus about it, I wanted to think about if polyglots is really active as a team or if there are parts there that are related to core, to outreach, to support, etc. that could be reported under those teams instead.

            I asked him to describe for me what the actual polyglots activity was, and what he described was basically he and Zé setting up translator access, handling questions, and discussing i18n issues, but agreed they weren’t being posted anywhere. So I apologize if there is an actual team structure for polyglots that is more than that. Can you point me to where that team activity happens? A regular irc chat or something, vs the one-offs that people tend to post to the blog about translations?

            Remkus argued in favor of polyglots remaining a team that reports independently, and committed to posting updates this term, so I said okay. That said, we’re going to start doing more international outreach via other groups that have been more engaged here, with the hope that it could all roll into polyglots when it has more active members and activity other than that described above.

            If you are interested in being the rep for that team, we can certainly revisit it — I can ping Remkus and he can post on the polyglots blog. I was really under the impression after my chat with him that there wasn’t a cohesive team there yet, so I apologize.

            @defries: Can you work this out on the polyglots p2 with Marko and whoever else is active there? Thanks.

            • Marko Heijnen 10:46 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

              Zé mentioned one time that GlotPress is a part of polyglots. So that part has activity on IRC, blog.glotpress.org and Trac. Thats why I’m currently a bit mixed. Not sure what the ideal logic would be.

              • Jen Mylo 10:53 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink

                Ah, got it, that makes more sense. As we last defined it, the GlotPress software is actually a sister software project, like bbPress or BuddyPress (each of which has its own domains, blogs, communities, etc), not a contributor group of the main WordPress.org project.

                What we *are* still missing is way to bring in the sister projects into a closer relationship, which we identified in October as something we wanted to do (one suggestion was having a rep from each project join the team reps group), but never really formed a policy or action around. I can bring that up again, it’s something we should have dealt with.

              • Jen Mylo 11:01 pm on September 5, 2013 Permalink

            • Remkus de Vries 6:15 am on September 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

              There is no more team structure than Zé and I currently at Polyglots. The way I see it Marko has taken the role of lead for GlotPress, but like you’ve already concluded, GlotPress is a sister project and a part of Polyglots.

              • Jen Mylo 12:05 pm on September 6, 2013 Permalink

                You mean “and not a part of Polyglots,” yes?

  • Emil Uzelac 5:25 pm on September 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Theme Review Team Update: 09/02/13 

    Currently

    • 10 new tickets are waiting for review.
      • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
      • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
      • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
    • 27 tickets are assigned.

    In the past 7 days

    • 128 tickets were opened
    • 168 tickets were closed:
      • 130 tickets were made live.
        • 28 new Themes were made live.
        • 102 Theme updates were made live.
        • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 35 tickets were not-approved.
      • 3 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

    Happy Labor Day!

     

  • Isaac Keyet 5:04 pm on September 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Update

    • iOS: modernizing (iOS7 & MP6-ification) is near completion, hoping to submit beginning of next week.
    • iOS: Code clean up and refactoring has been on hold since the lead dev has been out.
    • iOS: Visual Editor making progress, foundation is there.
    • iOS: Theme switching feature for WordPress.com blogs might make it into the next release, in testing this week.
    • Android: NUX (welcome guide, better log in/sign up) is 75% there.
    • Android: Themes + Media iteration is pretty much done, should hit beta by next week.
    • Android: Native Stats has all available API endpoints implemented.
    • Mobile Handbook: our goal to wrap it up by the end of August didn’t fully work, but only a few pages are still drafts now.

    What’s Next

    • iOS: polish modernized version of app, get ready for submit
    • iOS: pick code clean up and refactoring branch up again
    • iOS: iterate on the UI of the Visual editor
    • iOS: test Theme switching capabilities, include in the next release of possible
    • Android: keep working on NUX
    • Android: get Themes + Media ready for a beta early next week
    • Android test Native Stats implementation
    • Mobile Handbook: finish off remaining pages in the handbook, submit for editorial review

    More info in the dev chat summary.

     

  • esmi 11:44 am on September 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Accessibility Team Update: Sept 2 

    The accessibility team is still focusing on a global accessibility statement for WordPress and hopes to have a draft available for open discussion shortly. The theme access audits are now in a position to go “live” and we will be liaising with the Theme Review team on this over the next week or so.

    After 18 months as team rep, I’m standing down. Joseph O’Connor offered to take this role on and his offer was accepted by the team during the recent IRC meetup. I’ll be working with him during the handover period. In the meantime, we will be continuing to monitor current Trac tickets such as #24766 and the Features as Plugins Tracking list (thanks to Sam Sidler for giving us the heads up on this).

     

  • Amy Hendrix (sabreuse) 11:23 pm on August 30, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Community + Events update, August 30 

    Jen is working on recruiting new people for community team projects, starting with @courtneydawn on the Theme School project. Welcome Courtney!

    We’re working on revising the Troubleshooting Workshop materials so they can be used by new trainers or for self-study (Amy is coordinating, reconvening the crew that originally planned the curriculum). v 2.0 will focus on adding more hands-on examples and a screencast-ready script.

    Events this week:

    • 49 videos published to WordPress.tv
    • 287 WordCamps sold
    • WordCamps Wroclaw and Vegas announced their dates
    • WordCamps London & Tokyo opened ticketing
    • interviewed an organizer applicant for NJ, connected him with the local meetup organizer to collaborate
    • invoiced OnTheGo Systems for a new multi-event sponsorship for Toolset for 2013Q4 for North US, East US, and Europe/Africa regions.
    • The lively non-WordCamp discussion continues: http://make.wordpress.org/events/2013/08/20/organizing-a-non-wordcamp/

    Events, Coming week:

    • Continue to support the 22 events in planning and the 15 events in pre-planning
    • Conclude our discussion of non-WordCamp events policy
    • Wrap up the Community/Events merger.

    … Oh, and About That!

    We know it’s been a while since we first decided on merging, and we’re finally kicking off the combined group this week.

    Weekly IRC meetings will be on Thursdays at 1800UTC (2pm ET)

    The newly combined P2 will have categories for events and outreach, and we’re planning to include a bunch of new orientation material: who the team is, what our current projects are, and how to get information about (and better, get involved in) various projects. Stay tuned.

     

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