The Test Team helps manage testing and triage across the WordPress ecosystem. They focus on user testing of the editing experience and WordPress dashboard, replicating and documenting bug reports, and supporting a culture of review and triage across the project.
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Upcoming FSE Outreach Program Schedule (June & July)
Similar to my last post, I wanted to share the upcoming schedule for the FSE Outreach Program for June and July in order to ideally help people participate more in what’s to come and to know what to expect. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask here or to DM me in slackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (@annezazu).
June
Call for testing #7 runs through June 16th with a summary post to follow within 1 week.
A developer centric call for testing will be shared by June 23rd to encourage folks to explore using theme.jsonJSONJSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. and give feedback.
July
There will be a pause in formal calls for testing during July in order to allow me to focus on documentation for 5.8 (both developer and end user), do more hallway hangouts, etc.
To help support 5.8 testing efforts, I will share a post detailing how best to help with 5.8 RCRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. testing as it relates to FSE-related items and where to give feedback. This will buttress, not replace, 5.8 testing efforts.
Outside of the work above, there will continue to be live streams, hallway hangouts, important posts flagged, etc.
Overall Timeline
Date
CfT #7
Theme.json CfT
5.8 RC CfT
June 9
June 16
End
June 23
Start
June 30
Start
July 7
July 14
End
July 21
End
How to help:
This program has many pieces to it and there are tons of ways to get involved. At a high level, here are ways to help:
Help me triage feedback that come in from the calls for testing and file any necessary issues.
Help me write the calls for testing and the summary posts.
Help with 5.8 related documentation.
For any of the items that involve working with me directly, please comment on this post or message me directly (@annezazu) so I know you’re interested and we can talk through what helping out might mean. To those of you already doing this work, thank you so much! It all truly helps.
