Jeffrey Paul 5:10 am on February 23, 2017
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Planning for Community Summit 2017

In preparation for the 2017 WordPress Community Summit (“CS”) on June 13th-14th before 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. Europe in Paris, France we’ve been asked to provide the following (in summary):

A list of topics for the CS
A list of representatives to attend the CS
One or two contributors who are willing to help with the organization of the CS

This post serves as a request for input for the above three areas. Note that these three requests are detailed further with some clarifying notes on Make/Summit.

I will capture and summarize comments on this post ahead of next week’s CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat, will present them for review in next week’s Core dev chat, and then send our responses back to the Community Summit team by next Friday, March 3rd.

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Adam Silverstein 1:36 pm on February 23, 2017

I am most interested in continuing our discussion about JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. – what we hope and imagine for the future with the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/., and how we hope to get there… what we have in core now and how we can improve it and how we can attract more JavaScript first developers to build on WordPress and especially contribute to core. I would like to attend and volunteer to help in whatever role is most helpful.
- Mark Uraine 4:43 pm on February 23, 2017
  
  How the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. relates to wp-adminadmin (and super admin) would be interesting.
Aaron Jorbin 5:17 pm on February 23, 2017

topic: Technology version support policies (versions of PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher, MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/., Browsers, Screen Readers, other AT, etc.) Let’s come up with some concrete plans for when we intend to deprecate things and how we want to handle it.
People Who would be good to have in this discussion: @dd32 (to help with stats) @pento (to help with messaging) @afercia and @rianrietveld ( to help formulate AT support policies if they don’t exist already), @westonruter ( as maintainer of the largest JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. component) @azaozz ( as maintainer of tinyMCE component) @matveb ( as dev lead of new editor)
Helen Hou-Sandi 8:58 pm on February 23, 2017

Organizational concern: I’ve been the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. since the inception of team reps in 2012, which is an overly long time for something that I believe was originally meant to be served in terms of a year or so. In addition, I will be taking a few months of leave which overlaps with the summit and WCEU, so I will not be there in person nor available virtually leading up to it. I think it would be wise to name a different team rep going forward (possibly 2), at least for the remainder of this year, and it really should be somebody who will be attending the summit. I’m happy to help the process along for now, but the sooner somebody better equipped gets going, the more productive I think everything will be.
John Blackbourn 7:30 pm on February 26, 2017

Improved management of contributors with time to spare: This topic is particularly focused on pre-existing contributors who are paid to contribute to WordPress (eg. those whose time is sponsored by their employers), but also pre-existing contributors who aren’t sponsored but who do want to contribute a significant and/or consistent amount of time, and also potential contributors in a similar position.

As a project, we need to manage these people’s time much better. These people need to be project managed in one way or another to avoid repeats of situations we’ve had in the past where a contributor is literally being paid to fix things in WordPress and the project is failing to enable them to do so effectively, or even at all.

I’d like to attend the summit, and I’d be happy to jointly lead this discussion with someone who has good project management experience and some ideas about how WordPress might be able to better manage contributors, but at the same time do it in such a way that retains the fun and interesting aspects of contributing without turning it into something that too closely resembles “work”.
- John Blackbourn 7:30 pm on February 26, 2017
  
  Worth noting that this doesn’t only apply to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., but it’s a good place to start.
  - Aaron Jorbin 8:34 pm on February 27, 2017
    
    I agree this isn’t a problem solely for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Not sure what the best place is to define topics that are broader than what a single group can own. @_dorsvenabili ?
    - Rocio Valdivia 11:54 pm on February 27, 2017
      
      Good question @jorbin 🙂
      You can use the sign-up request form to submit all those general topics which don’t fit in the list of topics of the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team:
      https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2017/02/20/community-summit-2017-sign-up-request/
      Thanks!
Aaron Jorbin 8:40 pm on February 27, 2017

Communicating changes to WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. For the past few years, core has produced a field guide and worked with the 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. and plugins team to email 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 others about changes to core. Each release though triggers a number of people who don’t know about changes until after the release. Challange: How can we help ensure changes that aren’t worthy of user marketing promotion are known by a far greater percentage of WordPress developers?

Might also impact or benefit from input from +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 +make.wordpress.org/themes +make.wordpress.org/marketing +make.wordpress.org/meta
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:39 am on February 28, 2017
  
  The field guideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. has worked out pretty well for plugins. Provided it gets out on time…
  - Aaron Jorbin 5:01 am on February 28, 2017
    
    Even when we get the field guideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. out on time, issues come up post release.
    
    two ideas:
    1) Translating the field guide (is this reasonable if the posts that it links to aren’t translated?) Also means polyglots should be in the discussion
    2) Using the new release email mailing list to announce RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).

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