Meeting Agenda for December 13, 2023

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

🆕 News

Our next meeting falls between holidays for many attendees and often the last week of the calendar year is not the most active for contributors. Should we postpone the meeting 1 week, or skip it and resume on January 10 (11th for some regions)?

This week’s meeting will be held at 21UTC on Wednesday, December 13.

👋🏻 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

• Projects
  • Are there any new projects in Meta currently being worked on?
  • Data Liberation and data-liberation GitHub project.
• Meta Posts
  • Plugin Previews are now available for opt-in
• 2024 Planning
  • Ideas thus far:
    • Components maintainers.  These are rather dated, less known about, and in need of some attention.
    • @Steve Dufresne also was asking in #marketing about Meta being in the results for https://make.wordpress.org/contribute, and receiving feedback that might be challenging for new contributors.
    • improve the pledges page to better reflect the people who are actively contributing, and to make it easier to identify and contact people who are looking. Better identifying new people (or just people who are around and looking for something to do) and identifying projects that need help would be a good start. See also: https://github.com/WordPress/five-for-the-future/issues/214
    • Meta Team is not in the “Contribute Orientation” tool
      • Ideas sought for new contributors
    • Teams having a way to say “here’s a project/task”, and people having a way to volunteer for it, with some kind of two-way integration
    • Team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. election and meeting facilitators
    • Making the various Meta 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/ repos a bit more accessible to visitors. More extended descriptions, issue templates, and the like.
      • Overview from handbook needs to be revised
      • Where to put feedback
      • Slack Mapping
      • Spreadsheet detailing all the places WordPress work happens
  • Next steps
    • Further Ideas
    • Organizing workstreams for these
• GitHub & TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.
  • Sites
    • Redirects: Add /meet and /events & Add /and redirect for the data liberation project.
    • Query Filter: After opening a query-filter you should be able to type a letter and jump to an item in that list.
    • A polished local nav component
    • In Responsive view, Too much space in heading section
    • Google Map: Remove dependency on WordPress components
    • Dev Hub Tabe of Contents – remove H4
    • Wrong URL in Get Involved link in the header area
    • Data Request screen not fully responsive
    • About: Requirements lists incorrect PHP version for legacy users.
      • Related: Raise the minimum required version of MySQL to 5.5.5
    • Profile Website Links Simply Reload Profile When Openned in a new tab in Safari Only
    • Theme Directory:
      • Improve appearance of menubar link.
      • Prevent Downloads Per Day chart from overflowing container 
    • Browse Happy
      • Replace Opera with Vivaldi.
    • Mercantile: Dropdown filters z index
    • Central: Text correction on wordcamp Incident Report form
  • Enterprise:
    • Remove New York Post from media page.
    • Prevent Integrations section from touching window edges 
  • Hosting Team
    • Adding “Hosting Test Team” to Repos
    • New Slack channels for Hosting Team
  • 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
    • Plugins Team (make.wordpress.org/plugins) Handbook sync
    • DevHub Plugins Team (developer.wordpress.org/plugins) Handbook sync
    • Timestamps
    • Communication states
    • Stats: Generate a basic summary of per-reviewer stats & take 2
    • Reviewer Tools: Introduce a ZIP & lines-of-code column to the posts
    • Reviewer Tools: Make the Zip & LOC columns sortable, cleanup the sort metadata after the ZIP is removed
    • Record the reason a plugin is rejected.
    • Reviewer tools: More consistent UI for the extra columns, and hide irrelevant columns for non-pending views
    • Demo Button
      • support new blueprints api field
      • Plugin Directory: fix empty blueprint postmeta
      • fix _doing_it_wrong in blueprint API
      • Plugins: improved Test Preview button
      • Plugin Directory: fix confirmation dialog for preview toggle
  • Theme Directory
    • Remove click handler from filter tags.
    • Adjust spacing around favorite icon below 400px breakpoint.
  • WPTV
    • WordPress.tv: Increase font sizes site-wide
    • Fix missing alt for WordPress.tv video images
    • Some video titles incorrectly right-aligned
    • Explain that Video titles are limited to 100 characters
  • Playground:
    • Plugins APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.: add a new endpoint for blueprints.
  • Helpscout:
    • Match plugin emails when they’re responses to translated emails, or using markedup hypens such as ndash.
    • Store stats per-mailbox too.
    • Plugins+Themes widget: Link to the ZIP and prominently display the slug.
  • Test
    • About adding users to the test.wordpress.org
• Items left in Meta 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/. channel
  • Adding GitHub contributors via team dashboard
  • GitHub workflows questions
  • Plugin Repo Stats
  • Playground redirect
  • Link to forums

Cross-team news

• PHPCS from Core-Coding-Standards
• Matrix
  • Embracing Matrix for Enhanced Communication
  • Matrix Migration: Pausing the Transition

Other news

Open Floor