Summary of Docs Team Meeting Feb 8, 2022

Housekeeping

  • Next Meeting: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
  • Next Meeting Facilitator: @estelaris

Project Updates

Yoast 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/.

The Documentation table was led by @milana_cap

The following people worked ​​on updating 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 for 5.9 and made good progress: @mikes41720 @jaz_on @agnieszkaszuba @hannaw93 @darkavenger @nilovelez @mrkdevelopment

@milana_cap worked on migrating issues from 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. to 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/ and reviewing what’s been done.

If anyone wants to work on the block editor end-user docs, here are the open issues: https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/projects/3

WordPress Glossary:

@estelaris worked on updating terms in the glossary. The overview is on a GitHub project so we can keep track of the new words we are updating.

A couple of terms are not yet in there, as we are waiting for clarification from @annezazu.

Global Styles to be changed to Styles as per the new language we are following.

@estelaris to open an issue seeking an explanation for the difference between Block Styles, Local Styles, and Global Styles

Create HelpHub Block Editor articles list:

@milana_cap proposed creating a list of all the HelpHub block editor articles for managing future updates.

@bph had a google spreadsheet with the list of articles. @milana_cap suggested it would be a good idea to have the contents of this list in GitHub.

@femkreations proposed creating a GitHub Project with the list of articles and volunteered to create the project and move the contents from the spreadsheet into the Project.

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