WordPress 6.7 release squad ready

This post is a follow-up to the WordPress 6.7 call for volunteers.

Exciting News: The WordPress 6.7 Release Squad is assembled!

• Release LeadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.: Matt Mullenweg
• Release Coordinator: David Baumwald
• CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Tech Lead: Peter Wilson, Kira Schroder
• Editor Tech Leads: Robert Anderson, Kai Hao
• Core Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Leads: Ahmed Kabir Chaion, Stoyan Georgiev
• Editor Triage Leads: Nick Diego, Damon Cook
• Documentation Leads: Fabian Kägy, Mumtahina Faguni
• Test Lead: Ankit K. Gupta
• Design Lead: Joen Asmussen
• Performance Lead: Mukesh Panchal
• Default Theme Design Lead: Beatriz Fialho
• Default Theme Development Leads: Carolina Nymark, Juan Aldasoro

Notes and feedback

• This squad experiments with merging the Marcomms lead with the release coordinator, as suggested in the previous proposal and agreed upon with this release’s coordinator, David. We’re open to feedback and can revert this change during the process if needed.
• While announcing the whole release squad is ideal, at the end of the day, it involves a lot of async coordination that delays the announcement. Feedback received indicates this is particularly constraining for the Default Theme Role, for which the leads had to start the work before this announcement to avoid getting caught by the release deadlines. For future releases, I suggest:
  • Providing release squad updates every week.
  • Making a call for volunteers for the default theme earlier, independent of the squad of the release that will contain it.

Big thanks to everybody who volunteered for the release squad!

Thanks to @chanthaboune and @cbringmann for reviewing this post.

#6-7 #planning