Summary of Docs Team Meeting November 1, 2022

Housekeeping

Attendance: @milana_cap, @chaion07, @atachibana, @nielslange, @kafleg, @leonnugraha, @lucp, Malcolm, @femkreations, @colorful-tones, @dpknauss, @bph, and @estelaris
Where: #docs channel on SlackSlack 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: n/a
Meeting Facilitator: @milana_cap,
Note Taker: @nielslange
Next Meeting Facilitator (in two weeks): @femkreations
Next Triage Meeting Facilitator (next week): TBD

Project updates

  • @nielslange fixed broken code formats of the theme-related docs (see https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/531).
  • @femkreations worked on WordPress 6.1 pages (see https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1667311973175699).
  • @colorful-tones created a Trac ticket related to Block Patterns (see [#6556: Consider allowing Make teams to create block patterns](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6556) ).
  • @leonnugraha is planning to work on [HelpHub Remove redundant block name from “settings” panels · Issue #513 · WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker · GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/513).
  • @femkreations mentioned that 44 pages of [6.1](https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/45/views/2) and 14 pages of [6.0](https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/28/views/11) have the status `Todo` if all issues for 6.0 should be moved to 6.1. @milana_cap then raised the question if the issues can be merge theme seamlessly.
  • @nielslange mentioned that a few issues of 6.0, that are in `Todo` should be in `Ready for Review` and volunteered moving the corresponding issues to the correct column.
  • @milana_cap mentioned that the [Yoast Contributor Day](https://yoast.com/about-us/events/yoast-contributor-day-november-2022/) will take place on November 3rd, 2022.
  • @estelaris mentioned that @ninianepress finished adding terms to the docs glossary project in GitHub (see https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1667313612480669 and https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/20/views/1).

Open Floor

  • @nielslange asked about how to follow-up after working on a doc and `Save it for later`. @milana_cap suggested to 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.” the corresponding team lead.
  • @milana_cap mentioned that she saw the docs team small, then big, then small and now growing again and that she’s very happy with the current documentarians that are very dedicated.
  • @estelaris and @milana_cap had a brief discussion about the Handbook’s Glossary and @estelaris mentioned the link to [WordPress Glossary update](https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/20/views/1).

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