Summary for Docs Team meeting, February 7, 2023

Attendance

@ninianepress @milana_cap @leonnugraha @femkreations @estelaris @ninthcoder @JavierCasares @magaliechetrit

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Project checks

@milana_cap finished the WordCamp Asia Contributor Day Plan.

@femkreations completed reviewing the closed pull requests (PRs) in 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/ for Gutenberg from 14.2 through 15.0, and the User Documentation label was added. Femy also reviewed and closed one WordPress 6.1 issue.

@estelaris posted #652 and #651, but it was later moved to the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. Ticket #6740.

@leonnugraha reviewed and published #502 and #176.

Discussion on what can be done for the WCAS 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/.

@milana_cap is working on an interactive plan to onboard new contributors.

@milana_cap also organized onboarding sessions for the new non-project roles: Issue Triage Facilitator, Issues Coordinator, and Issues Reviewer. The session will be recorded, and posted on WordPress.tv.

Open floor

@JavierCasares mentioned two meta trac tickets – #6411 and #6714. Both need follow-ups and @milana_cap will leave a comment on the ticket for updates or ask about them in an upcoming meta meeting.

Props to @leonnugraha for writing this meeting summary.

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