Nikunj Hatkar 3:18 am on November 11, 2025
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Test Chat Summary: November 05th, 2025

On Wednesday, 05 November 2025, 02:00 PM UTC, <test-chat> started in  #core-test facilitated by @nikunj8866. The agenda can be found here.

1. Attendance

In attendance was:
@nikunj8866 @sirlouen @mosescursor @r1k0 @rakib03029 @abduremon(async) @fakhriaz (async)

2. Volunteer

This week’s Note-taker was @nikunj8866

3. Test Team Discussions

  1. The Test Handbook is now synced with GitHub.
    • Thanks to all contributors, especially @sirlouen, for leading the effort. Minor issues may remain, so everyone is encouraged to review and submit fixes.
  2. Time to Review/Update the Test Team Handbook Index Page.
    • The team discussed reviewing and updating the Test Handbook Index Page to remove outdated content and align it with current team activities.
    • @sirlouen suggested drafting one or more revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. for discussion before finalizing the changes.
    • Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach and several other outdated testing types (e.g., unit testing, usability testing, triage/bug scrubbing) will be removed.
    • The new focus areas for the Test Team will include Patch Testing Scrubs, Issue Reproduction Testing, and End-to-End (E2E) Testing.
    • Proposed changes were submitted in Updating the Test Handbook Homepage #89 for review and feedback.
    • The Test Handbook will get new pages for Feature & Enhancement Testing (#90), E2E Testing (#91), and Patch Testing Scrubs (#92); contributors can update these via 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/ issues.

4. Open Floor

  • @sirlouen brought up Issue #9 regarding documenting current team goals and initiatives, and discussed adding a brief note about this in the Handbook homepage. Contributors can follow and participate in the discussion through the issue.

5. Announcements

Please receive the ECO system announcements

  1. Test Team Announcements
  2. WordPress Ecosystem Annoucement
  3. Call for Testing
    Several issues are available for testing ahead of the 6.9 release. Please help collaborate on these! Here’s a short list, but more will surely be discovered.

6. Next Test Team Sessions

We usually have 2 meetings held every week and the times have been listed bellow for next week. An adjustment has been made to include the WordPress 6.9 Test Scrub.

Props to @sirlouen and @mosescursor for helping review chat summary.

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