Summary of Docs Team Meeting May 10, 2022

Housekeeping

• Attendance: @femkreations @milana_cap  @atachibana @TacoCode @pbrocks @juanmaguitar @courane01
• Where: #docs channel on Slack. Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.
• Meeting Facilitator:  @milana_cap
• Note Taker: @juanmaguitar
• Agenda: No agenda for this meeting
• Next Meeting Facilitator (in two weeks): Not decided yet

Project Updates

•  @milana_cap shares the status of docs regarding WordPress 6.0
  • last week we had RC1 out, all Dev Notes and Field Guide are published
  • we’re moving on to updating end user and dev docs – anyone wants to help just pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me
• @juanmaguitar asked about a list of Projects related to Docs
  • The list is here but it’s probably a bit outdated
•  @milana_cap shares that besides 6.0 she has created two new projects in the Docs repo:
  • “Too technical” Handbook – https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/projects/4
  • Migrate pages from Codex to Common APIs – https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/projects/5
• @femkreations shares:
  • she completed triaging the google doc and created trackers for 6.0 end-user documentation,
  • she reviewed the google doc with help of @milana_cap on a video call and @bph (async) for clarifications.
  • she also reviewed the WP 6.0 release candidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. post and About Page (draft)  for the HelpHub updates required and updated the trackers.
•  @milana_cap shares she’s working on getting more people making code examples for code reference

Open Floor

•  @milana_cap shares there will be 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/. on Friday, organised by Yoast
  • It will probably going to be focused on 6.0 work
  • work , depends on possibility to have it somewhere available for everyone to log in and make screenshots
• @juanmaguitar asked about specific projects for developer related documentation
  • these two for now:
    • https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/projects/5
    • https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/projects/4
  • but there is a lot of work on dev docs that are still not made a project because there’s not enough people to manage it
•  @milana_cap shares there another thing that might be done at Yoast’s Contributor Day → linking to courses and lessons from learn.wordpress.org
  • @courane01 shares this could be a sitemap https://learn.wordpress.org/pathways-to-learn-wordpress/

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