Future Tasks and Projects

This is a list of all of the tasks and projects that should be considered for future work cycles. When adding new items:

  • Place them into one of the relevant categories below. If there isn’t a relevant categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging., start a new one, or put it in Miscellaneous.
  • Group it with any related items
  • Prefix it with a the project or website name that it belongs to.
  • Make sure you include enough description to remind us what needs to be; otherwise we may have forgetten the essential info when we revisit this in the future.
  • Add links to any relevant SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. discussions, p2 posts, etc Automation

We should periodically prune the list of things that are no longer needed or important.

Leftover from Previous Cycles

  • Fix meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. emails.
  • Setup slack ping groups for deputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. and super-deputies
  • Landing pages for city.wordcamp.org with listings there for meetup orgs (and payment requests).
  • Investigate Polldaddy issues and/or auto-creation of wp.com accounts tied to wc.org subdomain names.
  • Add/update notification triggers for auto-emails to organizers.
  • Add Site Cloner docs to DeputyProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. Handbook
  • Document custom field for speaker/session post automation
  • Super DeputiesProgram Manager Program Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule. should be able to add users by username, and skip confirmation
  • Channel notifications for #outreach and #events
  • WPTV styles for new VideoPress player
  • Remove dollar amount from MES list on Central

Workflow / Processes / Tools

  • WordCamp.org: Automatically update wordcamporg text domain from GlotPress.
  • WordCamp.org: Create forms plugin
  • Tracking tool of some sort

Automation

Housekeeping

  • WordCamp.org: Pipe fatal PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. errors into Slack
  • WordCamp.org: Modernize tooling/workflows? git, githubGitHub 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/?, deployment, dependency management, etc
  • WordCamp.org: Notify devs when plugins/themes/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. needs updating (or just automatically install them)
  • WordCamp.org: Pipe wordcamp.svn commits into Slack
  • WordCamp.org: Remove old ms-files backcompat for faster access to static assets. Need rewrite rules, though.
  • WordCamp.org: Setup automated test suite
  • WordCamp.org: Migrate to version 2 of JSON API
  • WordCamp.org: Remove leftover remnants of 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. days. mu-plugins/ssl.php hacks, global login, new-site creation URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org protocol, etc

Minor Annoyances

These aren’t high-impact/high-priority, but sometimes it makes us and our users feel good to polish out the rough edges.

  • foo
  • bar

Improving WordCamp.org

The project started at the 2014 Community Summit to remove the worst pain points that organizers have.

Miscellaneous

We should periodically review this list to break out any themes into a dedicated category like the ones above.

  • WordCamp.org: Complete the Central theme redesign that Jan created. Possibly rebrand.
  • WordCamp.org: Open source remaining closed things
  • WordCamp.org: Allow for multiple contact fields in Multi Event Sponsor posts
  • WordCamp.org: Collect structured data on contributor days at WordCamps
  • WordCamp.org: Fix sponsor logo cropping issues
  • Profiles.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/: Fix bugs where badges disappear – [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Profiles.WordPress.org: 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. the theme so contributors can help improve it

 Docs

  • Update automated emails