Design meeting notes for October 3, 2018

The full transcript of our meeting this week, based on the previously posted agenda, can be found on our 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.

Issue with GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ callout in IE 11

We discussed an issue that was shared in the channel showing a display problem with the layout for the Gutenberg callout in the dashboard in the 4.9.8 WordPress release. Anyone wishing to look at the problem or validate the issue can jump into the newly related Trac ticket.

Calls for design

We jumped into Trello and discussed the existing calls for design. This is for any design related issues that don’t fit into the usual TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. or GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ ticket systems.

Privacy badge – @boemedia reached out to the privacy team for feedback on the badge that’s been created and is waiting for a response.
Design for learn.wordpress.org on Design team – The learning team is looking at the best way to move the design forward for the “Learn” website, in efforts to have it believe more with the other sub pages of w.org. Some changes will likely be coming and support is needed to pull it into a new direction. They will be posting an update with more info on what’s needed.
Design for “Create a Website” on WordPress.org – Cathi Bosco shared an update and will plan to have an update on this in soon. The previous work on Create a Blog has been finished, which will help unlock this.
PHP meeting on Design team – This is being worked on actively, it’s uncertain if input/feedback is needed from the design team in general.

Open floor

We jumped into a few topics.

Contributing to WordPress – It’s important to be sharing the value of design contribution for WordPress. So many wonderful folks are helping with moving WordPress forward, sharing their stories, doing the actual work, and much more. If anyone is on the fence about talking about this (maybe at your local meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area., or at a WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.?) take a stab at it and jump in. You won’t regret it!
Showing readme info in the installed themes page – We discussed the potential of allowing theme creators to display additional information related to their theme in the admin installed themes page. Right now pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party authors are able to show a link to details about their plugin (linking to the appropriate w.org plugin page). It would be helpful to find out what’s possible here, the next step will be for a ticket to get created identifying where this could go.
Tooltips in WordPress – A question was raised related to adding tooltips in WordPress and what’s available. A Trac ticket has been created, and as of now it looks like the work is covered. A new ticket may be opened specifically related to the discussion point about adding a new tooltip into WordPress. See Slack log.

#meeting-notes

Mukesh Panchal 5:00 am on October 4, 2018

You have not added attendees members list here. Also when you discuss about Tooltips in WordPress 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.” me so i can join that chat conversation.
Shinichi Nishikawa 3:14 am on October 10, 2018
Japan Design meeting notes for October 10, 2018

Date: 2018-10-10

Participants: @atachibana, @ shinyab, @piyoko, @mirucon, @shinichin, @nukaga, @blvtomoya, and @show-ko. The meeting was organized by @mimitips

After the 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/. at WC Tokyo 2018, some of the inspired started to have meetings in Japanese WordPress 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/. team.

Previously on JDM (Japan Design meeting)
1. Last Week Note
2. A lot of progress on the design handbook translation
Our list
1. Review the triage of #design team
2. Translating design handbook to Japanese
3. Finish the meeting in 30 minutes
What we did at the meeting

We focused on discussing a ticket, Better support for localized fonts #9891 in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ editor screen.

For Japanese users, this font family issue is one of the biggest concern/interest, and we discussed how we could get more attention to it, in a more understandable way. Here are comments and arguments we had.
- To make the difference visible to non-ja speakers, we should take a series of screenshots with different font-families. We can use these scripts made by @mayukojpn
- To share the context of sans-serif and serif use in Japan, we should have a clear explanation of them. @shinyab is going to compose a draft until next week to be discussed further.
- Sans-serif, or 明朝体, has accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issue; Japanese characters, especially those originating from Chinese chars, have far more numbers of strokes and it gets a lot visible when them set sans-serif.
- Fact: The vast majority of Japanese websites uses sans-serif for their font-family.
- We should keep two arguments separate;
  - a) serif or sans-serif
  - b) only Noto Sans Serif or implementing Noto Sans JP and/or Noto Serif JP.
- We’ll collect more information, data, and facts so that we can discuss further next week.
- We should talk to other non-latin character friends to get more feedbacks.
- @nukaga is asking for professional views of the Japanese a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) folks.
- @blvtomoya suggested that we can talk to a lot of designers including Japanese fonts and typography designers.
Other things mentioned.
- We need to join the discussion of Twenty Nineteen, so that we can add ja fonts support as we did for the Twenty Seventeen.
- We looked at the triage list from the #design meeting.
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