Team Chat Agenda: 6th August, 2026

Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Voice Chat scheduled for Thursday, 6 August 2026, 03:00 PM UTC, which is held in the #core-test Slack channel. Lurkers welcome!

Agenda

• Attendance
  • Attendance check in with the wp.org username
• Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next meeting
  We encourage all members to contribute to the team chat, and we now welcome Note Takers and Facilitators. This is a great time to get involved in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. test team. Have you recently joined, and you don’t know where to go? Start here (No Skills Required)
  • This week’s facilitator and note-taker is – @mosescursor
  • Next week’s facilitator note-taker is – Looking for a volunteer ( PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” us #core-test to volunteer)
• Test Team Discussions
  • Officialize the Test Reports
  • Feature and enhancement testing Page
  • Add page with current team goals/initiatives
• Open Floor
  • Got a topic? Add in comments below, or bring it up live during the chat.
• WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
  • WordPress 7.1 Beta 4
  • What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026)
  • Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities
  • Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 7.1
  • The Classic block stays in the inserter for WordPress 7.1
  • Merge Proposal: Design System Theming
  • Transitioning To Rulesets In The Gutenberg Repository
  • Consistent navigation in WordPress 7.1 with persistent toolbar
  • Hardening GitHub Actions workflows across the WordPress organisation
  • What’s new for developers (July 2026)
  • On-brand maintenance mode for WordPress Block Themes
  • WordPress 7.0.2 is now available.
• Test Team Announcements
  • Weekly Patch Testing Scrub: Second and Fourth Thursday of the Month at 15:00 UTC
  • Weekly Test Chat: Third Thursday of the Month at 15:00 UTC
  • Monthly Voice Test Chat: First Thursday of each month at 15:00 UTC
• Call for Testing
  • Help Test WordPress 7.1
  • Media Editor Modal: call for testing
  • Call for Testing: client-side media processing
  • Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org
  • Call for Testing: Responsive Styling
  • We have Patch Testing issues for the WordPress 7.0.3 milestone that need testing.
  • We also have a couple of Gutenberg Issues that need testing.

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