New Contributors Meeting Recap – July 12

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

This week’s New Contributors Meeting was held on Wed July 12th at 19:00. Once again, there were lots of great questions asked in the #core channel. Read the full chat archive here.

Discussion Highlights:

There was a general conversation about who should be making changes to tickets and if new contributors were “allowed” to do so.
- The answer, of course, is a resounding YES!
There was discussion around what repositories should be used.
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/contribute/#the-repositories
There was some clarification on contributing to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. vs updating developer.wordpress.org. Read the thread here.
A great conversation around which tickets to select. Read the thread here

Tickets Discussed:

#40921 – Inconsistent Handling of mp4 by Audio WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.
#40138 – Bundled themes: the tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) cloud widget should output a list
#22669 – iPad: Can’t Scroll Plugins Modal
#41168 – Identify the active theme when editing a site’s themes

The next meeting will take place in the #core 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/. channel on Wed, July 19th at 19:00. Please feel free to drop in with any questions or tickets you’d like to discuss!

Thanks to everyone that attended and please feel free to leave a comment below or reach out to any of the moderators with questions.

Moderators: @flixos90, @welcher, @stevenkword, @desrosj

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