Accessibility Team Update: August 27, 2014

Weekly Testing Meeting

For the last two weeks we’ve been trying something new, a weekly accessibilityAccessibility 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) testing meeting, 17:00 – 19:30 UTC. We meet in the wordpress-ui IRC channel to share our tests. If you want to join in or just see what we are doing just show up in the IRC channel. Read the logs for August 18 and August 25 to get an idea of what we are doing.

#accessibility, #team-reps, #weekly-updates

Plugins team update for August 28, 2014

Repo stats for the week:

Plugins requested : 177
Plugins rejected : 16
Plugins closed : 27
Plugins approved : 132

81 items in the queue, 51 without a reply and 6 older than a week.

5655 commits to the repository (969302-974957)

44 open support tickets, with 4 older than a week.

#plugins

Support Team Update for August 28th

Items discussed at this week’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.:

WordPress 4.0 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. ongoing

The RC is here, and we’re hitting it with everything we can.

No new earth-shattering Alpha/Beta threads to mention.

OMG WFT BBQ 4.0

We have nothing new to add to the the OMG WTF BBQ 4.0 post, so we now have our first draft of the OMG WFT BBQ for 4.0 post for the forums ready for critique.

The transcript for this week’s meetup can be read at this link.

#support

Theme Review Update for August 25, 2014

Currently

  • 145 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 88 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 112 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 128 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 57 tickets are assigned to 32 reviewers.
    • 51 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 53 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 56 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 85 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days

  • 109 tickets were opened
  • 101 tickets were closed:
    • 85 tickets were made live.
      • 1 new Themes were made live.
      • 84 Theme updates were made live.
      • 27 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

We had a successful first meeting as seen in the IRC logs. Our next meeting ( August 26 1700UTC ) we will discuss a role of key/trusted theme reviewer in order to help admins and push theme updates.

#themes, #trt

Docs Team Update: August 21, 2014

The following is the status of our current projects:

1. DevHub:

The team did a bug scrub of open 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. There are 6 tickets that will require changes to the parser before they can be worked on. We need a volunteer to step up and help maintain the parser so these can move forward.

Implemention of changes for both examples and explanations in the code reference should happen this week.

(8/19/2014 chat summary)

2. Handbooks:

The handbooks received a lot of attention from both the WordCampWordCamp 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. Grand Rapids and WordCamp Maine contributor days. Huge thanks to all the new contributors!

Both handbooks are progressing, and the focus is now on getting them into a usable state so they can be migrated to their permanent home at developer.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/.

The team is considering having weekly online handbook sprints to encourage contributors to work on the handbooks on a regular basis.

(8/20/2014 chat summary)

#docs

Plugins team update for August 21, 2014

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 repository statistics for the past week:

Plugins requested : 170
Plugins rejected : 47
Plugins closed : 13
Plugins approved : 163

28 plugin approval requests in the queue, 5 without a reply and 3 older than a week.

4725 commits to the repository (965459-970184)

22 open tickets in our support queue, with 3 older than a week.

Of interest to plugin authors is the new plugin icon functionality added to the wp.org repository; plugins can now display icons there as well as in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. plugin browser redesigned in WP 4.0. See the announcement post for details.

#plugins

Support Team Update for August 21st

Another small agenda makes for another small 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.. 🙂

Items discussed at this week’s #wordpress-sfd support meetup:

WordPress 4.0 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. ongoing

The beta appears to be coming along smoothly, and we are of course eagerly awaiting the RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge..

No new earth-shattering Alpha/Beta threads to mention.

The rest of the meetup was spend recapping the OMG WTF BBQ 4.0 post, and poking a bit around 4.0 ourselves, where @clorith discovered a fun display oddity regarding 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 review stars appearing as numbers instead in the review tab of the plugin details panel.

Just a reminder that the new Media library can be toggled between the new grid view and the old list view, so that’s than easy work-around for anyone encountering a plugin which breaks the new grid view in 4.0.

The transcript for this week’s short meetup can be read at this link.

#support

Theme Review Update for August 18, 2014

Currently

  • 139 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 73 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 111 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 123 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 57 tickets are assigned to 31 reviewers.
    • 52 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 54 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 54 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 73 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days

  • 82 tickets were opened
  • 65 tickets were closed:
    • 48 tickets were made live.
      • 3 new Themes were made live.
      • 45 Theme updates were made live.
      • 31 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 tickets were not-approved.
    • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

We will also be holding weekly meetings on Tuesdays in order to revive the themes IRC channel.

#themes, #trt

Docs Team Update: August 14, 2014

The following is the status of our current projects:

1. DevHub:

  • No progress on integrating Posts2Posts with the parser. We’re looking for a volunteer to help move this forward.
  • @coffee2code is currently working on implementing examples in the code reference. Work on implementing voting has been put on hold until that is completed.
  • @DrewAPicture and @coffee2code have been discussing how to implement content in the code reference. @DrewAPicture has offered to spearhead some of the changes needed.
  • @nicolealleyinteractive‘s pull request was merged in, including the archive/search simplification. Other handbook design changes have been merged as well.
  • @ryelle worked up a template for a dashicons page for the Resources section. She will put together a patch so we can migrate it to DevHub.

(8/12/2014 chat log)

2. Handbooks:

  • @topher1kenobe cleaned up the spreadsheet 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 so that it better reflects the current status of the handbook. He also added Chapter 17 (Helper Tools), and finished the 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/ section (pending final edit).
  • @samuelsidler started migrating the Theme Developer Handbook to its permanent home on DevHub (section 1). Adjustments to the handbook plugin/theme will be made, as needed, to ensure the content looks good. Link cleanup will happen as part of the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies..

(8/13/2014 chat log)

#docs

Plugins team update for August 14, 2014

Repo stats for the week:

Plugins requested : 192
Plugins rejected : 32
Plugins closed : 15
Plugins approved : 185

4673 commits to the repository (961427-966100).

38 plugins currently in the approval queue, 3 without a reply and 3 older than a week.

Support: 6 open tickets, 3 older than 7 days.

#plugins