Meeting Recap for October 4, 2023

Slack log of the meeting.

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

🆕 News

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. news

• Meeting Time Change: Wednesday, October 18 @ 19:00 UTC
• Projects
  • Are there any new projects in Meta currently being worked on?
    • None shared
  • Showcase is progressing nicely. You can check is out here: https://wordpress.org/showcase-v2/ and this is the GitHub repo for reference.
• TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.
  • Sites
    • Nav component: Header
      • @ryelle “This is mostly in place on the redesigned sites already, so if there is any specific feedback, it would be better in new issues”
    • Highlight unofficial State of Enterprise WordPress Survey on wordpress.org/enterprise
      • @willmot and @iainmcpherson have received access to Crowd Signal for the survey on the Enterprise page. The survey now appears 2x on the page, once at the top pointing to Crowd Signal, and once lower in an image link pointing to SOEWP site that the agencies involved are promoting.
  • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Repo
    • Plugin Repo: New sortable column (zip size and/or number of lines)
      • @frantorres is the primary point of contact now on this
  • Theme Repo
    • Theme Search is broken.
      • @otto42 “I have been unable to duplicate this and the explanations given seem to be correct, mainly in that it’s a caching thing…As for the appearance of the load more button or not, that is likely a problem with the theme directory theme itself. The theme directory theme needs a overhaul basically”
• 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/. and Miscellaneous
  • Access for Slack pings
    • @sereedmedia “Is there a way we could A) document this process or B) create a process that is more automatable (like an issue form on GH or something)?”
    • @ipstenu indicated a willingness to assist and seeking documentation on how to do so. @otto42 indicated he would guide Mika.
  • Badging
    • No progress on the ticket @nao opened for this: #7196: Contributor Mentorship Program – Graduate and Facilitator Badge. @coffee2code was pinged.