Summary for Docs Team meeting, Jul 18, 2023

Attendance

@ninianepress @milana_cap @leonnugraha @jominney @611shabnam @jyolsna @atachibana @femkreations @sumitsingh

Housekeeping

• Where: #docs channel on Slack
• Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 02:00 PM UTC
• Agenda: Agenda for Docs Team bi-weekly meeting July 18, 2023
• Meeting facilitator: @ninianepress
• Note taker: @ninianepress

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming meetings

The next team meeting will be the monthly online Contributor Day which will be held on Jul 25, 2023 at 13:00 UTC.

• Next triage facilitators: @milana_cap
• Next meeting facilitator: @leonnugraha
• Next meeting note taker: @611shabnam

Project checks

@milana_cap:

• helped a bit with WordPress 6.3 docs
• working on nonces coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev blog post

@femkreations:

• Completed adding tasks for 6.3 to the 6.3 Project Board
• The tasks have been sorted into medium priority tasks and high priority tasks
• Created a list of good first issues if you are new to the contributing to the Docs team
• Call for volunteers for 6.3 Documentation in almost ready for publishing

@leonnugraha:

• Has been wrangling, reviewing, and publishing WordPress 6.3 dev notes, mainly for GutenbergGutenberg 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/ with @milana_cap and @bph‘s help

@611shabnam:

• Completed #282

@jyolsna:

• Reviewed a 6.3 doc

Open floor

There were a few mentions and discussions on important issues:

Meeting adjustments for August

As WCUS is coming up in August, the team decided to adjust some meeting dates to accommodate team contributors who will be in attendance.

As such, the meeting on Tuesday, 22 August, 2023 will be an asynchronous meeting in the #docs channel on Slack for WCUS 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 monthly online Docs Team Contributor Day that was previously scheduled for August 22 has now been moved to Tuesday, 29 August, 2023 from 13:00-16:00 UTC.

Call for volunteers announcement and amplification

@femkreations almost has the announcement post calling for volunteers to work on the 6.3 Documentation Project Board.

She requests that once the post has been published, that the team shares it to help spread the word to get more contributors.

Headings and bold text in articles

@611shabnam noticed that some articles have headings that are bold instead of actually being formatted as headings and asked for the protocol.

@femkreations and @leonnugraha answered:

• Generally, we use headings H1 through H3
• Bold is used for 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. names or to describe screen names and such

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