Summary for Docs Team Meeting July 13, 2021

Housekeeping

Attendance

@milana_cap, @thisisyeasin, @atachibana, @kmhazari, @webtechpooja, @mburridge, @caseymilne, @tacitonic, @mikachan, @chaion07

Where: #docs channel on Slack

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Meeting Facilitator: @milana_cap

Note Taker: @atachibana

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Project Updates

@tacitonic: For the Style Guide, He has completed the article for C. Currently writing the article for B.

@milana_cap: For the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor end user docs: we are seeing progress being made by @annezazu, Milana is joining this week. For WordPress 5.8 release cycle today we’re having RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 3 only 7 days till 5.8 going into the wild.

New Member Mentoring

@milana_cap will give some advices to @mburridg and @kmhazari.

Anyone else new and need a bit of guidance feel free to join #docs channel and post your questions or comments.

An Audit Tool Update

@milana_cap: She and @courane01 had a meeting and discussed a lot of ideas on tracking changes and updates from releases also, some nice ideas on making contribution process easier and simpler (hopefully unified throughout the wp.org)

If you’re interested, keep an eye on Audit Tool in #training and #marketinghttps://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/05/28/proposal-an-audit-tool-for-learn/
She personally thinks it could be a game changer if we get all we talked about.

Doc update for 5.8 update release – DevHub & HelpHub updates

@milana_cap: This is the last week of the release cycle and this week She is working on DevHub and HelpHub updates. @femkreationsdid most of HelpHub updates, @annezazu is rocking that block editor end user updates.

She will go through all the 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 cards in 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. board to see where we are with block editor end user docs and work on those DevHub updates. if anyone is interested in helping out, here’s the sheet 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RS0BEwy8pNNHR7P_nZ3yKcgWKVABbEn9RMjja-wkJwY/edit?usp=sharing

Doc Team is looking for Block Editor End User Docs Project Lead

Michael Burridge (@mburridge) raised hand for this role!

Open Floor

none.