The WordPress coreCoreCore 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 bugbugA 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 our bug tracker.
We use Slack for real-time communication. Contributors live all over the world, so there are discussions happening at all hours of the day.
Our core development meetings are every Wednesday at 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC in the #core channel on Slack. Anyone can join and participate or listen in!
The general flow of preparing for, hosting, and summarizing devchats is as follows:
Publish an agenda (example) at least 24 hours before the scheduled devchat time and including the relevant release number, “devchat”, and “agenda” tags to ensure it appears in relevant searches/filters elsewhere on Make/CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Script your agenda topics so you can copy/paste into devchat (example).
Publish meeting summary (example) ideally within 24 hours after the completion of devchat and including the relevant release number, “devchat”, and “summary” tags to ensure it appears in relevant searches/filters elsewhere on Make/Core.
At the beginning of devchat, include a <devchat> opening tagtagA 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.) (example). At the end of devchat, include a </devchat> closing tag (example). This makes it easier to find the devchat afterwards in the SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. logs.
In order to generate the @here channel notification to start the devchat meeting in #core, you’ll need to use the /here command as @here has been disabled. If you do not have the access to use the /here command, then ask for the ability in #meta with an explanation that you’re helping coordinate devchat in #core and access should be added to your Slack account.
Devchat used to be once a week and its time would adjust as Daylight Saving Time (DST) adjusted around the world. This was originally desired as a way to keep the devchat meeting at the same time across timezones to allow folks to regularly plan on when to attend. However, the process for updating the meeting time as DST changed became more time intensive than desired and with the addition of a second devchat each week there are now two conversations that folks can attend. With that, devchat’s timing will no longer change with DST and will instead operate regularly at 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC on Wednesdays as noted on the Weekly Developer Chats page.