New Contributors Meeting Recap – July 19

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.

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

Discussion Highlights:

General tips on getting tickets reviewed
- Attend chats for the open floor portion to ask for help/reviews on tickets.
- Use the dev-feedback keyword to get noticed.
What do the different status in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. mean
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/contribute/trac/
How tickets are prioritized
- https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1500493272892028
Bug gardening
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/bug-gardening/

Tickets Discussed:

#41155 – WordPress 4.8 Adminadmin (and super admin) SidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. Sub Menu Navigation Issue
#41317 – Consistent sub menu item spacing when count indicator is present
- Congrats to @JDTrower for pushing it along and getting it in the 4.9 Milestone!
#41314 – If the required fields are not set on user profile’s save, every field’s value will be dropped

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 26th at 19:00. Please feel free to drop in with any questions or tickets you’d like to discuss!

Thanks to everyone that attended! As always, please feel free to leave a comment below or reach out to any of the moderators with questions on Slack.

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

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