Test Team Voice Chat Summary:: 7th May, 2026

Voice Chat notes: 5/8/26 in #core-test 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/ AI took notes for this huddle from 15:01:42 – 15:58:07 UTC. The meeting covered updates and discussions on several test team initiatives, including 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ markdown templates, a fix for finding tickets, the ongoing handbook review, and issues with the Playground installation guide. A significant portion of the discussion focused on testing a new weekly digest workflow for Slack, and the team finalized a new alternating weekly meeting schedule. View huddle in channel

Attendees

@Moses Cursor, @ozgursar, @Huzaifa Al Mesbah, @nikunj8866, @r1k0, @Shazzad, @SAndrew, @Mohammed Kateregga, @BIGUL, @Azhar Deraiya, and @Kaushik Domadiya

🌟 Summary

• Attendance and Introductions
  • @Moses Cursor welcomed attendees to the Testing voice chat, emphasizing an informal atmosphere to encourage participation and idea sharing. [8:28] [8:35]
  • @Moses Cursor requested attendees to post their WP.org usernames in the thread for attendance and to share what they are working on. [9:33]
  • Attendees provided their WP.org usernames: @ozgursar, @nikunj886, @mosescursor, @r1k0, @huzaifaalmesbah, @andrewssanya, @sajib1223, @mohkatz, @harshalkadu, @mbigul, @azharderaiya, and @khushdoms
  • @Moses Cursor announced that he would be the host, facilitator, and note-taker for the month. [11:02]
• Review/Update GitHub Markdown Test Report Templates
  • @Moses Cursor initiated a discussion to review and update the GitHub markdown test report templates, noting an issue where the existing template referenced an old report. [12:34] [14]
  • @Huzaifa Al Mesbah confirmed that he had requested the new reports be considered. [13:10]
  • @ozgursar suggested informing Yusuf about the updated test reports 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. from Sirlouen’s GitHub repository to update the markdown templates based on that. [13:43] [14:12] [14:29]
  • @Huzaifa Al Mesbah considered it a good idea but suggested creating a new issue for it, as Yusuf is a new contributor, and it might be better to handle it separately. [14:38]
  • @ozgursar agreed, noting the differences are not significant, and proposed waiting for Yusuf to make the requested changes before approving. [15:02] [15:19]
  • @Moses Cursor questioned the necessity of the current ticket if the new report already supports Markdown. [16:52] [17:32]
  • @ozgursar clarified that the combined report is archived, so Yusuf needs to work on the new one. [16:37]
  • @nikunj8866 offered to review the template once he had access to a system. [17:20]

🗣️ Announcements

• WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
  • Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 7.0 edition)
  • Building a custom sync provider for real-time collaboration
  • Client-Side Abilities API in WordPress 7.0
  • Introducing the AI Client in WordPress 7.0
  • What’s new in Gutenberg 22.9? (8 April)
  • WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2
  • WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 1
  • Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 7.0
• Test Team Announcements
  • Weekly team meetings are now alternating every Thursday at 15:00 UTC as per schedule
    • Test Team Voice Chat: 1^st Thursday of the Month
    • Patch Testing Scrub: 2^nd Thursday of the Month
    • Test Team Chat: 3^rd Thursday of the Month
    • Patch Testing Scrub – Gutenburg: 4^th Thursday of the Month
• Call for Testing
  • Call for Testing: Community AI Connector Plugins
  • It’s time to test real-time collaboration!
  • Call for Testing – Pattern editing and content-only interactivity in WordPress 7.0
  • Help Test WordPress 7.0
  • We have Patch Testing issues for the WordPress 7.0 milestone that need testing.
  • We also have a couple of Gutenberg Issues that need testing.

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Props to the Slack Bot that helped make the summary and @huzaifaalmesbah for Peer reviewing this