Summary for Docs Team Meeting November 9, 2021

Attendance

@milana_cap @mkaz @juanmaguitar @chaion07 @muhammadfaizanhaidar @kafleg @atachibana @mitchblue006

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Please note: Next week (16.11.2021) shall be  “Issues Triage Meeting” and thereafter (23.11.2021) “Docs Team Meeting”.

@chaion07 will facilitate this meeting and the agenda will be revision of projects that were put on hold.

Project Updates

5.9 Release (Documentation)

@mkaz is the Docs Lead for WP 5.9 https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/11/. Integration of custom spreadsheets may be used for future releases as default. 

@mkaz made “Doc Type” properties to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. by Dev Note, User Docs, or Dev Docs.

Additional help welcome as @audrasjb  @milana_cap @annezazu are also working on this release.

@milana_cap also mentioned today is feature freeze, and closed tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets as well as planning in writing docs should be considered.@mkaz is the go to regarding this.

Open Floor

@muhammadfaizanhaidar  is awaiting response with https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/47, @milana_cap suggested waiting for @estelaris to respond.

@milana_cap mentioned that content from Themes handbook could be combined and updated https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/theme-security/using-nonces/.

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