Theme Review Update for March 31, 2014

Currently

  • 32 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 8 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 71 tickets are assigned.
    • 34 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 51 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 61 tickets are older than 3 days

In the past 7 days

  • 143 tickets were opened
  • 181 tickets were closed:
    • 143 tickets were made live.
      • 27 new Themes were made live.
      • 116 Theme updates were made live.
      • 16 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 36 tickets were not-approved.
    • 2 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

#themes, #trt

Docs Team Update: Mar. 27, 2014

The following is a summary of the topics that were discussed during our weekly Docs chat.

1. DevHub: @siobhan said there are two issues left to address with the parser. Once that is finished, attention turns to completing the handbook and code reference themes. (3/25/2014 team meeting summary)

2. Admin Help: @jazzs3quence said they are looking back at the original user testing videos, and prepping for new user tests. They have received some good feedback on the list of admin tasks. Starting this week, the weekly meeting on Mondays will be held at 17:30 UTC.

3. Handbooks: @blobaugh said he received an email from @jdgrimes, offering to donate some tutorials on unit testing for the 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 Developer Handbook. @sewmyheadon said there is nothing new to report on the Theme Developer Handbook. The next Docs Meetup in Seattle is April 5th, and he hopes for another good turnout to work on both handbooks. You can attend in person in Seattle, or remotely in the #wordpress-sfd IRC channel.

4. Codex Updates for 3.9: The Codex will need to be updated after 3.9 is released. @siobhan suggested we go back to doing a virtual sprint for the updates. We can build the task list for the sprint from the 3.9 version page that @DrewAPicture is working on.

5. Upcoming Docs Conferences: I posted earlier this week about upcoming docs conferences. @siobhan will be speaking at Write The Docs in Portland in May. I’ll be attending the OpenHelp conference in Cincinnati in June. OpenHelp contacted @siobhan about whether we plan to send a team and/or sponsor this year’s conference in Cincinnati.

6. Docs Chat Time Change: Starting this week, the meeting time will shift to 23:00 UTC on Thursday to get us back to our old schedule – 4pm PDT, 5pm MDT, 7pm EDT, 12am London (Friday).

You can read the chat logs here.

#docs

Accessibility Team Update: March 26, 2014

Meeting Time Change

We will be going back to a meeting time of 19:00 UTC next Wednesday, April 2.

Progress

The meeting this past Wednesday was interesting. Now we’re getting to the heart of the matter.

So far, we have compiled a keyboard-only report on most of 3.8 and have some data to rely on.

The first pattern we identified from the testing is poor visual keyboard focus in the Admin. Rian created a ticket dealing with keyboard focus. Better visual indication of focus on elements in the Admin (#27173). This ticket is now closed (fixed.) Thanks Rian!

Testing 3.9

We have to quickly change gears because 3.9 is due out in 18 days and we have to test and create tickets where we find issues. A list of items to concentrate on will help guide us.

Contact @AccessibleJoe for details if you want to help test 3.9.

#accessibility, #team-reps, #weekly-meetings

Plugins update, March 27, 2014

Repository stats for the last week:

Requested: 164
Rejected : 30
Closed: 31
Approved: 153

Currently in the request queue: 21 (2 older than one week; 3 with no replies)

41499 commits to the repository (879162-883311)

Plugins support email stats for the last week:

Currently open: 17 (8 with no activity in the last week)

In other action this week, Mika wrote a post over at 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//plugins about how to set the MIME type for your plugin screenshots so they display rather than being downloaded.

#plugins

Support Team Update for March 27th

Items discussed on today’s #wordpress-sfd support 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..

More WordPress 3.9 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. testing

Until 3.9 is released this will be a recurring item. The 3.9 blockers were mentioned and with TinyMCE being upgraded there may be a rash of TinyMCE 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 issues right after the release. @ipstenu brought up a trac ticket and there was some discussion about the alpha/beta forum.

HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. issues for forum moderators

If you’re a moderator and you use the https URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org then the administration short-cuts such as deleting a spam post work fine.

But if you flip between httpHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. and https then you may have problems. @keesiemeijer has a pair of scripts that not only address that but make it very easy for moderators to navigate the forums.

If you are a moderator then consider installing these. It’s made my forum workflow so much easier.

http://keesiemeijer.github.io/WordPress-moderator-tools/topic-redirect
http://keesiemeijer.github.io/WordPress-moderator-tools/

Many thanks to @keesiemeijer for sharing that. You can also use HTTPS Everywhere too and once the forums enforce SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. for everything then this problem will go away.

Help first, moderate second

There was some discussion about moderating in the forums. The goal in the WordPress support forums is to help users and not be a stickler for the rules. As a result of that conversation a post for discussion was put up in make/support.

Please give that post a read and chime in. It’s not really to make more rules as much as it is for Dos and Don’ts.

Blue Welcome Box

This weekend I’ll give some thought to the verbiage for a Blue Welcome Box on the make/support forums. See the make/docs site for a very good example. I think it could be useful for new visitors, I like the idea of consistent branding and want to welcome more people to participate.

There’s also a real likelyhood of my copying the make/docs welcome box almost word for word… I’ll try to mix it up.

Next week’s #wordpress-sfd meeting will be at the regular time

DST will kick in and the meetup will be 1600 UTC or 12 noon EST and 9 AM US Pacific time.

Edit: Correction, The next meeting is noon EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).

You can see the transcript of today’s meetup via this link.

#support

Theme Review Update for March 24, 2014

  • 19 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 4 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 10 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 72 tickets are assigned.
    • 32 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 51 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 64 tickets are older than 3 days

In the past 7 days

  • 148 tickets were opened
  • 111 tickets were closed:
    • 87 tickets were made live.
      • 33 new Themes were made live.
      • 54 Theme updates were made live.
      • 71 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 22 tickets were not-approved.
    • 2 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

#themes, #trt

Docs Team Update for March 20, 2014

The following is a summary of the topics that were discussed during our weekly Docs chat.

1. DevHub: Work continues on fixing parser-related issues. @siobhan posted on Make/Core, looking for volunteers to help with the parser and the handbook theme. If you would like to work on the project, leave a comment on the Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post, or come to the weekly IRC chat on Tuesdays at 19:00 UTC.

2. Admin Help: @trishasalas said the group’s current focus is on discovering what problems users are currently having, and addressing those with appropriate solutions. @designsimply has agreed to help with user testing. The team will start with a few simple tests, and see what those reveal. They are compiling a list of tasks to be used during testing. If you would like to be part of the effort, please attend the weekly meeting on Mondays at 18:30 UTC. (3/17/2014 team meeting summary)

3. Handbooks: I asked @samuelsidler when the Theme Developer and 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 Developer handbooks would be moved over to DevHub. He said he wasn’t sure, but there are some encoding issues that may require them to be moved manually. @siobhan said it was important to retain the contributor information to be used on the Credits page for each handbook.

4. WordPress Core Style Guide: Fred Clay Meyer and @joshlevinson attended the meeting to discuss their proposal for a WordPress Core Style Guide. Discussion centered around how they could best present their ideas to the core team to begin the discussion. The team suggested that Fred put together a proposal to present at a core dev chat after 3.9 is released.

You can read the chat logs here.

#docs

Support Team Update for March 20th

This has been a quick week for support and the agenda was light today. Items discussed were as follows.

Daylight saving time confusion

Today’s meeting was at 1700 UTC which today meant 1 PM EST and 10 AM US Pacific. The meeting time isn’t changing and after March 30th it will be back to it’s regular time in the US.

But next week (March 27th) the 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. will be again at 1 PM EST and 10 AM US Pacific. DST is a pain.

More WordPress 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. testing

WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 is out today. Please continue to test and report issues. If you see an Alpha/Beta sub-forum topic that has a ticket already then please post that ticket URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org and resolve the topic.

Issue with moderators deleting some posts in the forums

@Ipstenu brought up this issue in the forums. Sometimes deleting individual posts in the forums (spam for example) doesn’t work and the moderator has to go to the bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. backend and delete it that way. I confirmed that I see the same thing.

There was some discussion that it may be related to the recent all SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. switch but that’s just speculation.

The ticket URL raised on this issue is https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/375

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 screenshots being downloaded instead of displayed

@Clorith brought up that sometimes when you visit a plugin page clicking the screenshots will download the image rather than display it in the browser. @PeterBooker was able to use one of his plugins as an example.

It was believed that this is triggered by images being JPEG or PNG or not being in the /assets/ directory. But that plugin page has the bug for all screenshots regardless of image format. All of the images are located in the /assets/ directory too.

A ticket will have to be raised and not all plugin screenshot pages are experiencing this issue.

The transcript of today’s meetup can be viewed at this link.

#support

Mobile Group Update for Mar 17, 2014

Android: 2.7 is feature complete and is now in QA.
iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads.: 4.0 submitted to App Store on Friday the 14th. 4.0.1 is in the works with code freeze being 3/21.
GSoC: Applications are now open. Directing students to use #wordpress-gsoc and #wordpress-mobile for hashing through ideas.

#mobile

Theme Review Update for March 17, 2014

Currently

  • 28 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 4 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 15 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 67 tickets are assigned.
    • 34 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 51 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 63 tickets are older than 3 days

In the past 7 days

  • 127 tickets were opened
  • 119 tickets were closed:
    • 100 tickets were made live.
      • 6 new Themes were made live.
      • 94 Theme updates were made live.
      • 55 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 19 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

#themes, #trt