Housekeeping
Attendance: @ninianepress @femkreations @milana_cap @colorful-tones @atachibana @estelaris @samanthaxmunoz @mayankgupta @webcommsat @bph
Where: #docs channel on Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Find the complete transcript of the meeting on Slack.
Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2022/10/10/agenda-for-docs-team-bi-weekly-october-11-2022/
Meeting Facilitator: @ninianepress
Note Taker: @samanthaxmunoz
Next Meeting Facilitator (in two weeks): @estelaris
Next Triage Meeting Facilitator (next week): @ninianepress
Project Updates
It was a busy week for the 6.1 release cycle – many dev notes are published and some are still in review.
Release candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 1 is ready today as reported by @milana_cap.
@samanthaxmunoz has been working on a block 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. pattern for Block Documentation and the pattern is ready for review before it is added and documented – see Issue #474.
@femkreations reviewed 333 closed PRs in Gutenberg 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/ from 13.1 through 14.1 with the User Documentation
label and created 78 issues in GitHub for 6.1 User Documentation.
@femkreations also reviewed the About page draft and listed top priority tasks for the November 1st release. There are 25 items to do that ideally will be completed before the release of WordPress 6.1. The list is pinned to the #docs Slack channel.
Reclassification of End User Documentation
The reclassification of end user documentation has been finalized and there are now articles ready for content review.
In summary, the goal of the reclassification project is to re-organize the end user documentation and remove “too technical” content from end user documentation and/or merge it into developer docs.
An inventory of technical parts from end user documentation can be found here.
Related, WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ Support is being renamed to Documentation – more information about that is available here, “Renaming WordPress.org Support to Documentation”.
Equal priority should be given to WordPress 6.1 documentation and the reclassification project.
Process in Project Boards Discussion
The team discussed the process for documentation project boards at length. As it stands there are only 2 columns, “In Progress” and “Review”, which are not clear and were discussed last week.
Various ideas were suggested about how to organize the project boards including separating into “new documentation” and “existing documentation”.
A consideration is that during Contributor Days often issues get screenshots and content updates in the comments of the issue, but the articles are not updated or assigned.
New columns have been added with temporary names such as “Text in progress” and “Screenshots in progress” but will likely continue to be refined.
The discussion will continue asynchronously or during the next meeting.
Open Floor
An Online Contributors Day for the Docs Team was discussed and will take place on October 25th starting at 10 am UTC.
@mayankgupta mentioned that DesktopServer has been discontinued yet is referenced in several documentation articles and has created an issue where mentions of DesktopServer are being noted.
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