Meeting Agenda for April 17, 2023

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👋🏻 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?
  • Update from Website-Redesign
    • Homepage
    • Forums
  • Update from AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Testing

Meta Posts

• The Forums get a refresh (see thread discussion)
• Homepage updates (see thread discussion)

Events

• Add a toggle to display/hide the action buttons on attendees for cohosts
• Make Event page SEO friendly
• Create an RSS Feed of events

Mercantile Store:

• A user reported design issue regarding hover effect on button text.

Meta Team:

• Create repo @WordPress/contributor-handbook: Seeks to centralize resources for contributors by creating a repository at WordPress/contributor-handbook, classified as an enhancement and currently assigned.
• Add official “Team Reps” list in code / automate team rep access: Suggests adding an official list of team representatives to automate access, categorized as a feature request with low priority.

Pattern Directory Team:

• #601: Style adjustments for selected item and apply button in multiple selection flow

Photos Team:

• Make rejected photos aren’t computed in user’s stats: Seeks to ensure that rejected photos do not negatively affect user contribution stats, listed as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Rating System For Relevance Sorting: Focuses on addressing defects in the relevance sorting rating system to enhance user experience, with normal priority.

Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.:

• Request to clear and update HelpHub support articles for zh_CN: Aims to update and clear outdated HelpHub support articles for the Chinese (zh_CN) locale, identified as a blessed task with normal priority.
• Swahili /support and /team: Focuses on adding Swahili language support for /support and /team sections on WordPress sites, designated as an enhancement and assigned to tobifjellner.
• Design Issue: Underlines in submenu of polyglot sub page: Addresses design issues related to underlines in the submenu of the polyglot subpage, marked as a defect with the lowest priority.
• #7594: Added hover effect to links in Translation Teams Table:

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 Review Team:

• Run PCP function to test plugin in plugin submission process: Proposes integrating a Plugin Compatibility Checker function in the plugin submission workflow, listed as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Plugin Review Tool – Best Practices – check if your plugin will pass the review guidelines: Aims to develop a tool that checks plugins against best practices and review guidelines, listed as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Plugin/Theme Developer badges should be persistent: Discusses making Plugin/Theme Developer badges persistent on profiles, categorized as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Discussion: Plugin name length, readability and consistency: Opens a discussion on optimizing plugin names for length, readability, and consistency, listed as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Code Refinement for Improved Efficiency: Addresses the need for code refinement to improve operational efficiency in WordPress, marked as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Update PHP security recommendation: Proposes updating PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. security recommendations to reflect current best practices, categorized as an enhancement with normal priority.
• Add official “Team Reps” list in code / automate team rep access: Suggests adding an official list of team representatives to automate access, categorized as a feature request with low priority.
• Discussion: Plugin name length, readability and consistency:

Playground

• WordPress crashes when connecting to MySQL
• Offer Playground puzzle pieces to WCEU sponsors
• Support DELETE LIMIT

Support Forums Team:

• Please restore left border to new support theme: Requests the restoration of the left border in the new support theme, classified as a defect with normal priority.
• Can’t upload photo: Users report an issue with photo uploads, identified as a normal priority defect.
• Notify Plugin or Theme developer of support requests: This reopened ticket proposes notifying developers about new support requests, marked as an enhancement with normal priority.
• #7593: Proposal to remove non-block editor option from support forums:
• #7595: Bug report on edited reviews not showing as recent:
• #7596: Enhancement suggestion to include checkbox for support reps acknowledging forum guidelines:

WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/

• Styles of selected item and apply action in multiple selection flow
• Adjustments in the Japanese version
• Accessibility: Color Contrast Failure on Five for the Future Program Expectations Page
• Accessibility: Plugin favorites button incorrectly coded as link, doesn’t have a consistent accessible name, and loses focus when activated
• Accessibility: Plugin favorites heart color contrast failure
• Accessibility: Plugin Single Use of Color Failures

Cross-team news

• WP 6.5.3 MR forming
• WordPress Contributor Mentorship: 2024 Q1 Cohort Graduates

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