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#  Tag Archives: availability

 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/)
4:57 pm _on_ July 19, 2012     
Tags: [3.5 ( 27 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/3-5/),
availability   

# 󠀁[Hey kids You might have noticed I haven’t…](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/07/19/hey-kids-you-might-have-noticed-i-havent/)󠁿

Hey kids. You might have noticed I haven’t been as vocal as usual since we started
3.5, and I wanted to update you on why that is. I’m going to be taking a leave of
absence from Automattic for a couple of months, and stepping back from coreCore 
Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team
builds WordPress. UIUI User interface work in 3.5 at the same time. Though normally
a leave would mean unplugging completely, I’m going to be continuing to work on 
bringing together the various contributor groups, and have an upper limit of 10 
hours per week for this. (If I start edging into more time than that, my HR person
will be severely disappointed in me!)

As core is also a contributor group (obviously), I’ll be available within that 10-
hour limit to consult on ux/ui matters. What this means is that I won’t be doing
wireframes, coming up with original designs, or project managing the dev group as
I have in the past. What I will be doing is providing perspective and gut checks
when asked on the designs and decisions that others come up with. I’ve talked with
Koop about this, and I thought about making a flow chart for “Should we pingPing
The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in 
computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection.
Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message(
DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”
Jane?” but decided not to bother (even though it would have been funny).

Basically, if you want me to look and give an opinion (sometimes that opinion might
come with a design suggestion, sometimes not) and/or a “Did you think about this?”
check to be sure you haven’t overlooked any repercussions the new design may have,
go ahead and ping me. I won’t be online as much as usual, so my response time likely
won’t be immediate. Also, I will not be reading the firehose of TracTrac An open
source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management
tool for WordPress. emails (gasp!) or checking the ux-feedback report or hanging
out by default in the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have
conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and 
by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are **#wordpress** and **#wordpress-
dev**, on irc.freenode.net. channels while I’m on leave, so if there’s a ticketticket
Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. you want
me to weigh in on, a ping would be good since I won’t catch it on my own.

Timing: the leave starts right after WCSF in early August, and ends October shortly
before the community summit (of which the need to start planning is part of why 
I’m stepping back from core for a bit). So if you need to nab me during that time,
email jane at wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code
is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code
for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community
conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)
or hit me on Skype if it says I’m online. Thanks, and have a great dev cycle!

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