Jon (Kenshino) 11:19 am on February 19, 2017
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Summary for Documentation Team Meeting February 16

 

Attendance

@drewapicture @Kenshino @desrosj @hardeeparsani @cais @milana_cap @kafleg @mrahmadawais @juhise

Change of timing

We moved the meeting forward this time due to conflicting schedules. Apologies to those who were thinking attending it at the original timing.

We are perhaps thinking of moving it up 2 hours to 2017 15:00 UTC. What do you think?

General Updates

  • Helphub is moving ahead slowly.
  • Theme Developer Handbook was released
  • DevHub comments / code suggestions clearing is going too slow (@drewapicture will help to clear)

WordPress Community Summit 2017

The community summit will be held in conjunction with WCEU this year in Paris. The last time it was held alongside WCUS in Philadelphia in 2015.

The summit will be held June 13-14, preceding WCEU, June 15-17.

The Community Summit is less like an actual 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/. and more of an opportunity to discuss and make decisions and plans for your respective teams.

Typically, for instance, you’ll see the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team make roadmap-related decisions about what’s coming up in core development for the next two years. Talk about priorities, active projects, projects you want to work on, Very much like a retreat.

The Docs team launched the 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 Developer Handbook, for instance during the San Franciso Summit in 2014

It usually proves to be very productive for every team that meets and has a presence. It’s also an opportunity to have discussions with other teams, especially for discussing cross-team projects like helphub (docs + support + metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.), devhub (docs + meta), inline docs (docs + core), etc.

People attending

@kenshino, @drewapicture

People wanting to attend

@milana_cap, @atachibana

We would love to have more people to attend from the Helphub, Theme Developer and Plugin Developer Handbooks teams. If you are working on a documentation project for 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/, or if you’re a documentation junky who wants to contribute, please let @Kenshino or @drewapicture know that you’re interested.

Attendance to the WordPress Community Summit is through nomination by the Make / WordPress team leads. We can only nominate you if you let us know you’re interested!

We will have to submit this by the end of February. Please let us know by then!

Summit Discussion Topics 

  • Game plan for recruitment
  • Onboarding Plan
    • We get a ton of people wanting to contribute but we have no established recourse for providing that access.
  • State of Doc’s Team (own) documentation
  • DevHub and Helphub translation Mechanism (Docs + Meta + Polyglots)

We would love to cover more in the summit, so please post topic suggestions in the comments!

WP CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. Code/Command Reference

We’ll probably be restarting devhub meetings soon, so for now, I’d say just leave the command docs in control of wp-cli.org and we’ll look at short-term and long-term solutions to bringing those docs over.

The upside of wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ command docs is that they’re already written in PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. and use phpdoc to parse into the staticly-generated pages, so we might be able to fork the parser we use for the code reference.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

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