Design team meeting notes Dec. 16, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the 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 by following the instructions in our handbook.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

Announcements

This is the last design team meeting for 2020. We will be back on 15 January with a design triage.

Don’t forget to tune into Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word on the 17th of December (tomorrow).

Learn WordPress is live now. Whether you are new to WordPress or a seasoned developer/designer, there is always something to learn.

Updates

@estelaris (that’s me) was invited to WC Sevilla on 26-29 December to lead the Documentation table and work with both the documentation and polyglots teams to understand what features are needed for better translations in HelpHub.

Discussion

Last month we made changes to our triage sessions and agreed to have only one session and do a review of labels and keywords to move the tickets. The length of the triage session was also shortened. The idea was to have fewer meetings and work more efficiently.

After a few weeks, we have noticed that contributors expect working sessions and we have had to add unscheduled sessions to review tickets. Also, the number of tickets and PRs that are not being worked on has increased, both in Track and 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/.

Our idea is to keep to only one session, increase it as need it, between 30-45 minutes and give feedback/assign design work.

One of the questions focus on the reason why triage is not working, is it due to the length of time, or time when triage is run and content?. There were several points made and expect a post about how to run triage in the next few days.

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