Summary for Docs Team Meeting: January 27, 2020

Facilitator: @kulsumsiddique

Attendance: @kenshino, @bph, @felipeelia, @kulsumsiddique, @audrasjb, @ibdz, @wpza, @felipeloureirosantos, @nullbyte, @kafleg, @atachibana, @nobnob

Note-taker: @audrasjb

Next week Facilitator: @kenshino (but invite for other meeting facilitator is open, please comment below if interested)

Team workflow and badges

@felipeelia: workflow docs are being constructed on TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.. @milana_cap is the one to ask for access if needed.

Badges are being discussed in this P2 post. The contributor badge has been discussed for a while now, trying to reach a number of X micro contributions. On his last comment there, @felipeelia suggested to give the badge right away, just as in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and 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.. @bph added that there is precedent on other teams and make the contributor badge seen right away: it’s the best onboarding tool we have.

@bph proposed a list of elligible contributions:

  • Fix an article
  • Create meeting notes
  • facilitate a meeting
  • reporting an issue on the comment form?
  • Creating a PR for 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/ docs
  • user notes on code reference
  • write an article on HelpHub
  • update an article on HelpHub
  • migrate a page to DevHub
  • Report an issues

@kenshino shared some worries about relevancy: “if we say that fixing a typo is fine – we’ll have a rush of requests to do that to farm badges”. Indeed, Core and Meta have automated system to give props to people who contribute on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., based on commit messages. There is no such system for Docs.

@felipeelia argued that 1) People receive core/meta badges sending a 1-line patch ; 2) Coming in to Docs 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 and reporting a small typo does require some effort. @bph added that working out how to communicate a fix to the Docs team is a significant step. even if the contribution is just a typo fix. @kenshino agreed, but the team must keep an eye on abuse to tighten those rules if needed.

Regarding Team Badges, @kenshino proposed to set up a sheet and to give edit access to people that are running projects within the Docs Team.

HelpHub Survey

Reminder from previous meeting discussions: The goal is to build the questions of the survey with the general theme being “How do you think we can improve the WordPress documentation?”. Some questions using the likert scale to track how good it is now so the Team can repeat the survey in the future. Some open fields to get proper feedback so it’s possible to define future projects better. That would be great for this survey to be ready for 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. Asia, in less than one month.

@atachibana is coordinating the effort. @bph proposed to assist on this task.

Step 1 is to start a Google Doc in the team’s shared folder.

This survey and the Docs team focus for WordCamp Asia are set to be the next meeting focus.

@bph proposed to draft a P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post to ask for questions proposals. @kenshino proposed to review this draft.

#contributor-day, #helphub