Docs Team Update June 30, 2013

This Week

  • Supportumentation — The Docs Team is leaning toward merging back with Support after six months apart. This will allow us to, among other things, form a unified support hub and entry point to WordPress help and documentation
  • Team elections will probably be happening soon, so interested people should put themselves forward because it’s a great way to get involved!
  • The Theme Developer Handbook is looking pretty near to completion. Thanks to @iandunn for recent work on it and @sewmyheadon for volunteering to edit it
  • @nacin is working on a Code Reference 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. this week. The Code Reference will parse coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. PHPDoc blocks and eventually replace the function, class and APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. references found in the Codex. See the roadmap for more information

Next Week

  • We’ll look at the logistics of merging back with Support, which includes merging the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.’s (thanks @otto42!), moving handbooks, etc.
  • Work will continue on finalizing the Theme Developer Handbook and starting the Code Reference beta
  • Just as a reminder, Docs/Support IRC chat was moved to 16:00 UTC (12:00 p.m. EDT, 9:00 a.m. PDT) on Thursdays in #wordpress-sfd

#docs

Plugins Directory Update for June 27, 2013

We have recovered from the massive backlog we had last week (note how many were approved!).

Plugins Directory stats for the last week:

Requested :192
Rejected : 45
Closed: 8
Approved: 227

Commits by 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 authors: 3891
Currently in the request queue: 117 (41 older than one week; 25 with no replies)

Plugins support email stats for the last week:

Currently open: 20 (2 with no activity in the last week)

#plugins

Mobile Group Update for June 27, 2013

Update

  • iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 3.6.2 was released fixing a few newly detected issues revealed by the recently added crashlytics library. Unfortunately it also create a bug on the iPad. A fix was expedited and iOS 3.6.3 was released Thursday morning.
  • The Automattic members of the mobile team are attending team meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. this week and brainstorming new awesomeness for the mobile apps.

What’s Next

  • Android NUX UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. implementation
  • Android custom nav drawer conversion work
  • Final testing and tuning on iOS native reader before submitting.

#mobile

Support Update: June 25

News:

Next:

  • Waiting on the next 3.6 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. – since the Post Format UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. was yanked, we pretty much have to consider support’s ‘status’ as a reboot. There will probably be a lot of small changes that break things in odd ways.

Theme Review Team Update: 06/24/13

Currently

  • 222 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 111 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 176 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 200 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 27 tickets are assigned.

In the past 7 days

  • 77 tickets were opened
  • 69 tickets were closed:
    • 36 tickets were approved. (41 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.)
    • 33 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

#themes, #trt

Docs Team Update June 22, 2013

This week

  • The Docs Team had a great meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. in Cincinnati this week at Open Help Conference and Sprints. This was the first time many of us had met in person and we had a blast!
  • We hashed out a concrete roadmap for documenting WordPress — a summit action item — which is certainly worth a read.
  • We also achieved measurable progress on the Theme Developer Handbook during the sprints Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
  • Thanks to WooThemes, Automattic, and 10up for sending employees and to all of the people who traveled to participate in our so-called “Docs Summit”. Check out the make/docs post for a full recap.

Next week

  • I expect we’ll recap progress made at Open Help Conference and move forward with initial aspects of the roadmap.
  • Look for a forthcoming analysis of the ~1600 responses we got in the Codex survey. More details on that soon.

#docs

Plugins Directory Update, June 21, 2013

This one is a week late, sorry.

Both Ipstenu and myself were traveling all of next week, and the plugins’ queue has grown excessively large as a result. With both of us now back in the saddle, we should be able to bring it back down to a normal number within a few days.

Plugins Directory stats for the last week:

Requested :188
Rejected : 32
Closed: 10
Approved: 74

Commits by 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 authors: 2645
Currently in the request queue: 187 (24 older than one week; 127 with no replies)

Plugins support email stats for the last week:

Currently open: 22 (5 with no activity in the last week)

#plugins

Mobile Group Update for June 19, 2013

Update

  • Android Notifications update has been performing well, but some crash bugs are being fixed in a maintenance update.
  • Android NUX iteration is underway, the legwork is there and the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. is next on the line.
  • Android custom navigation drawer to official drawer conversion may happen soon.
  • WindowsPhone received an update to fix some issues and add Gallery support for self-hosted WordPress installs.
  • BlackBerry got a bug fix update that’s now like to help determine some recent sign-in issues.
  • iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 3.6.1 adds crashlytics which has helped determine what some serious issues with the app are. 3.6.2 has been submitted to help fix some of the more severe crashes.
  • iOS Native WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ Reader: adding last graphics for the update and now we’re working on performance, testing. Getting seriously close.

What’s Next

  • Android Notifications bug fix update coming up
  • Android NUX UI implementation
  • Android custom nav drawer conversion work (see below and in weekly meeting summary)
  • Maintenance update for legacy BlackBerry app
  • More iOS bug fixes based on Crashlytics findings
  • Keep testing iOS Native WordPress.com Reader UI, tweak last graphics (hopefully getting to the promised 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. soon).

More info in this week’s dev chat summary.

#mobile

Theme Review Team Update: 06/17/13

Currently

  • 210 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 85 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 131 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 189 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 31 tickets are assigned.

In the past 7 days

  • 113 tickets were opened
  • 48 tickets were closed:
    • 25 tickets were approved. (33 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.)
    • 21 tickets were not-approved.
    • 2 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

#themes, #trt

Community Team Update for June 14, 2013

This will hopefully be the last /community update before we merge with /events. Hoping to do that officially when Andrea and I are together next week at OS Bridge.

Past Week:

  • Represented the project at AdaCamp SF, a conference about/by/for women in open technology and culture. The WordPress team reps contingent included me and Andrea Middleton sent by Automattic (who sponsored the event), and Mika Epstein sent by Dreamhost. Hanni Ross and Jackie Dana from Automattic were also there, as was Courtney O’Callaghan, one of the TAs from our DC training pilot. We also got to meet Kat Hagan, one of our OPW interns.
  • All the gsoc/opw interns are gearing up to start their projects this week, and have access to their repos. They’ll be posting weekly updates to the contributor team blogs with which their projects are most closely aligned, and will take care of the administrative stuff on /community.
  • Work continues on a new 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/ homepage. Ben is working on some icons for it now, after which we should be able to launch a v1.
  • Connected with people from other projects at AdaCamp to discuss 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. stats and how we can improve in this area.
  • Planning outreach activity at Open Source Bridge and OSCON.
  • Confirmed a training workshop in Montreal.

Coming Week:

  • Open Source Bridge conference in Portland. Both Andrea and I will be attending.
  • Combine /events and /community blogs.
  • Try to get the new Make homepage launched.
  • Start the process of discussing a) 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. elections, and b) community summit.
  • Schedule people to staff the OSCON table that we’re doing thanks to Bluehost. Any Team reps planning to attend?

#community