Preparing for WordCamp Asia Contributor Day 2023

Checklist for those attending in-person

If you’re planning on attending Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. for #WCAsia, CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. and long time Core Contributor Jonathan Desrosiers (@desrosj) has created a wonderful checklist and list of things to expect.

View the post on his personal site: Preparing for a WordCamp Contributor Day.

Some other useful links

FAQs for new contributors to core

Finding bugs to fix

List of ‘good first bugs‘ to get started in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. and a similar list of “good first issues” for Gutenberg.

If you’re on Twitter, you can follow https://twitter.com/GoodFirstBugs.

There is now support for GitHub Codespaces to help new contributors to core.

Thanks to @davidbaumwald and @webcommsat for working on this post.

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