On Thursday, 20 August 2026, 03:00 PM UTC, <test-chat> started in #core-test facilitated by @nikunj8866. The agenda can be found here.
1. Attendance
In attendance was:
@nikunj8866 @ozgursar @softglaze @ikamal @r1k0 @mosescursor @huzaifaalmesbah @rejaul
2. Volunteer
This week’s Note-taker was @nikunj8866
3. Test Team Discussions
- Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations
- Nominations for the next Test Team Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. term are open until 2026-09-12 00:00.
- To nominate someone (or yourself), comment on the post.
- Private nominations can be sent to @mosescursor or @nikunj8866 in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
- Revise Test Team Rep duties and qualifications
- @nikunj8866 has already reviewed the PR and finds it good to merge.
- Some feedback already exists on the PR; @mosescursor to take a look.
- Anyone who hasn’t reviewed yet is encouraged to leave feedback directly on the PR.
- [Issue Reproduction] Missing guidance on testing unexecutable code paths by forcing conditions
- Team agreed a common section should be added to the handbook for this scenario.
- @nikunj8866 proposed a simple addition, as suggested by @huzaifaalmesbah: when a condition can’t be reproduced locally, tag the reporter and add a comment with the
needs-test-info keyword.
- Proposal: extend TestFlow to help moderators prepare a session, not just run one
- @ozgursar noted @softglaze found some bugs and will test them as time allows.
- @ikamal has already commented on the issue.
- All members encouraged to read the issue and share their thoughts directly in the GitHub 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/ thread.
- Recognize WordPress 7.1 Test Contributors – Badge Awards & Blog Post
- Following the same approach used for 7.0, the team will recognize WordPress 7.1 test contributors via badges and a blog post.
- @huzaifaalmesbah to prepare the contributor docs, following the same process as last time.
- Once the docs are ready, @mosescursor will review and assign badges to eligible contributors.
4. Open Floor
There were no additional topics raised during the open floor session.
5. Announcements
WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
Test Team Announcements
Call for Testing
6. Other Meetings
#core-test, #test-chat-summary
