Pooja Derashri 7:57 am on October 15, 2024
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Introducing: Test Team Reps for 2024 – 2025

Following this year’s nominations and voting period, we are pleased to announce our new Test Team Reps for the 2024-2025 term! 🎉 Join us in welcoming Olga Gleckler and Krupa Nanda to represent the Test team!

Election Results | Detailed Results

Olga Gleckler (@oglekler)

Olga is a full-stack developer with over 15 years of experience in software support, marketing, and web development. She is an active WordPress contributor, a Codeable expert, and a fantasy writer.

She has been contributing to WordPress in her spare time since 2019.

She was the Test co-lead for the WordPress 6.5 release and the triage co-lead for several other releases. She is actively participating in the Contributor Mentorship Program. She believes in open-source and is passionate about everything she does. She likes rock music and sharing knowledge.

You can read more about Olga on her profile page.

Krupa Nanda (@krupajnanda)

Krupa is a QA Engineer with over 6+ years of experience who specializes in testing WordPress-based projects. Her career has also included roles as a Project Coordinator and Release Manager, where she oversaw the development of in-house plugins and add-ons.

Krupa attended her first WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. in October 2023 and has since tried to contribute to as many as possible. She also participated in the second batch of the Contributor Mentorship Program (CMP), where she learned how to contribute effectively. Krupa successfully completed the program and is now a mentor for the third batch of CMP. In addition to her mentorship role, Krupa is a Global Translation Editor (GTEGeneral Translation Editor General Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor.) for the Gujarati locale. She also volunteers and speaks at WordCamps and meetups.

Krupa is from Jamnagar, Gujarat, and she currently lives in Pune, Maharashtra. Beyond her professional pursuits, Krupa’s journey is characterized by the seamless integration of motherhood and a thriving career. As she continues to grow, Krupa is excited about the future opportunities that lie ahead.

You can read more about Krupa on her profile page.

Congratulations 🥳 to our new reps! I look forward to supporting their move into the team rep role.

Props, @ankit-k-gupta, for peer review of this post.

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Pooja Derashri 11:12 am on October 4, 2024
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Team Rep Poll Update: Addressing Unusual Voting Activity

We want to inform everyone about an important update regarding the ongoing Team RepTeam 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. poll. On October 3, we noticed an unusual pattern of voting, with a large number of votes coming from the same IP address. After investigating, we discovered that some of the votes were generated by bots, which compromised the integrity of the poll.

To address this issue, we’ve taken immediate action by implementing new restrictions to prevent multiple votes from the same IP address. This will ensure that each person can cast vote only once, maintaining fairness for everyone involved.

As part of this process, we have also reset the poll, which means that all previous votes have been erased. If you’ve already voted, we kindly ask that you please resubmit your vote.

Vote Now

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work to keep the voting process transparent and fair!

Link for the old post: Test Team Reps: Submit Your Votes

Props to @ankit-k-gupta for review of this post.

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Pooja Derashri 11:33 am on October 2, 2024
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Test Team Reps: Submit Your Votes

This election is closed, and I’m contacting the finishers for final steps before making the official announcement.
Thank you, everyone who voted, as well as the nominees who stepped forward for this role!

Important Update: On October 3, we observed a high volume of votes coming from the same IP address in the Team RepTeam 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. poll. Upon further investigation, we discovered that bots were involved. As a result, we implemented restrictions, and multiple votes from the same IP will no longer be accepted. We have reset the poll, clearing all previous results. If you voted before, please submit your vote again. Read our announcement post. Thanks

From August 13 to October 1, 2024, the Test team opened nominations for new reps to serve over the 2024-2025 term. The polls are now open and ready for your votes!

What Are Team Reps?

For a refresher on the Test Team Rep role, please see the most recent call for nominations. The Test team will elect two team reps for the next term, to collaborate and share responsibilities.

Who Are the Nominees?

In alphabetical order, this term’s nominees are:

Krupa Nanda – @krupajnanda
Olga Gleckler – @oglekler
Patrick Lumumba – @lumiblog
Narendra Sishodiya – @narenin

Where Can I Vote? 🗳️

Please cast your votes through this anonymous public poll. You may vote for two nominees, but once you submit your vote, you cannot vote again.

Vote Now

And because many of you are testers and like to ~~break~~ test things 😉, please note that attempting to vote for all three at once will lock out your vote 🙅. Please resist the temptation to test the voting platform!

👉🏻 The poll will remain open for two weeks, until October 11, 00:00 UTC. After that, votes will be tallied and reps selected based on votes received.

Props to @ankit-k-gupta for review of this post.

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Pooja Derashri 10:43 am on August 13, 2024
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Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations

Update 1: This call for nominations has been extended to 2024-10-01 00:00. (see comment below).

Update 2: Nominations for the 2024-2025 term are closed.

It’s time again to nominate the Test Team Reps who will serve for the next 12 months!

This Call for Nominations is open until 2024-09-23 00:00. Please leave a comment identifying your nominee(s) before then.

For a quick refresher of Team RepTeam 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. roles across the project, please see the Team Reps post on Team Updates.

The Role

Reps in the Test Team perform primary and secondary (or backup) duties to help support team chats, make updates to the team’s blog and handbook, remove blockers, keep a pulse on team objectives, and promote testing opportunities within the WordPress project.

As a reminder, Reps are not called “team leads” for a reason. While people elected as Team Reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the Team Rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

Test Team Rep duties include:

Write weekly Test Team Update posts, and post to Team Updates.
Write weekly Week in Test posts, and post to Make WordPress Test.
Write agenda for bi-weekly <test-chat> sessions (example).
Run alternating weekly <test-chat> (example) and <test-triage> (example) sessions in #core-test.
Write <test-chat> session recaps, and post to Make WordPress Test.
Run Test Scrub sessions in #core-test
Help new contributors with their WordPress Testing related queries.
Help raise awareness for testing needs, especially for upcoming releases.
Raise issues or red flags that other teams should be aware of or discussing.
Participate in quarterly update progress reports (example).

These duties are shared between the primary and secondary Reps (see Rep Responsibilities on the Team Rep page).

Qualifications

A Rep is an active team member who is reliable and trusted, advocates for and is knowledgeable of one or more areas of testing, and wants to represent, nurture, and grow the team to better serve the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.

Test Team Reps must be committed to showing up and performing regular duties, and should expect a time commitment of at least 2-4 hours per week. Reps serve for a term of one year.

How Test Team Elections Work

Step 1: Call for Nominations 📣

The first step is to reach out to the community with a Call for Nominations (this post!)

Please nominate in the comments of this post. You can write a comment as simple as “I nominate @the_persons_username.” Self-nominations are also welcome by leaving a comment such as “I nominate myself.”

Private nominations can be submitted by contacting @webtechpooja or @ankit-k-gupta in 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/..

If you’ve been nominated, please accept or decline the nomination as a reply to the same comment.

⏰ The deadline for nominations is 2024-09-23 00:00

After the deadline, each nominee will be contacted to discuss qualifications and to confirm their acceptance of the nomination.

If you get nominated, please do not feel like you have to say “yes”. It’s okay for you to decline the nomination if you don’t feel like this is the right fit for any reason. “Thank you, but no thank you!” 😉

Step 2: Vote for Team Reps 🗳

An election will happen only if there are more than two accepted nominations within the nomination period; otherwise the nominees will become the new Test Team Reps.

If held, the election will be conducted by an anonymous poll (example). The poll will remain open for 2 weeks.

Step 3: Announce Team Reps 🎉

Once uncontested nominations have been accepted, or in the event of an election the voting period has passed, the new Test Team Reps will be announced in a post (example).

Time to Nominate!

Are you ready? It’s time to nominate folks to serve as our Test Team Reps for the new term! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments.

Props to @ankit-k-gupta for review of this post.

+make.wordpress.org/updates/

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Brian Alexander 6:53 pm on October 16, 2023
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Introducing: Test Team Reps for 2023-2024

Following this year’s nominations and voting period, we are pleased to announce our new Test Team Reps for the 2023-2024 term! 🎉 Join us in welcoming Pooja Derashri and Ankit K Gupta to represent the Test team!

Election Results | Detailed Results

Pooja Derashri (@webtechpooja)

Pooja got involved with WordPress in 2013 as a developer. In 2015, she co-founded WPVibes, a 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 development company. It was in 2017 when she attended her first WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more., started getting involved in the WordPress community, and started her contribution journey.

Within the project, she has served as Co-Team RepTeam 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. of the Training Team for the 2022 & 2023 term. She has been a noteworthy contributor to the WordPress 6.1 release. She is part of the release squad for 6.3 as Test Co-lead and 6.4 as Test Lead. She is also GTEGeneral Translation Editor General Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor. of Hindi locale and co-organizer of Ajmer WordPress MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area..

Pooja’s dedication to WordPress was acknowledged with the Kim Parsell Scholarship, granting her the opportunity to attend WCUS 2022. However, she couldn’t attend the event due to visa issues. In 2023, she was one of the organizers of the inaugural WordCamp Asia.

Pooja lives in Ajmer, a beautiful city in Rajasthan, India. Beyond her WordPress endeavors, she enjoys gardening, exploring new places, and listening to music.

You can read more about Pooja on her profile page.

Ankit K Gupta (@ankit-k-gupta)

Ankit holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications, a testament to his dedication to the field of technology. His journey in the tech world commenced as a computer lecturer at a prominent college in Delhi. However, driven by his unwavering passion, Ankit made a pivotal career move in 2013, transitioning into Software Quality Engineering. Currently, Ankit serves as a Lead QA with the 10up OSP team.

Ankit’s professional mission revolves around ensuring a bug-free and user-friendly experience for everyone within the WordPress community.

His dedication to this mission has led him to become a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor to WordPress for an impressive ten consecutive versions, spanning from WordPress 4.0 to WordPress 4.9 and continuing into the 5.X and 6.X release series.

Beyond core contributions, Ankit has contributed to various releases of BuddyPress, bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org., Translation, WordPress Docs, and WordPress metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. sites. Furthermore, he holds the roles of editor and locale manager within the Hindi WordPress Polyglot team.

Outside of the professional realm, Ankit’s enthusiasm extends to sharing his knowledge and experience with others. He has been a speaker at numerous WordCamps and meet-ups centered around WordPress and Quality Assurance.

When he’s not immersed in the world of technology, Ankit cherishes quality time with his family. His leisure activities include embarking on long drives, exploring new places, and capturing the beauty of the world through his camera.

You can read more about Ankit on his profile page.

Congratulations 🥳 to our new reps! I look forward to supporting their move into the team rep role.

Props @webtechpooja and @costdev for peer review of this post.

+make.wordpress.org/updates/

#team-reps

Brian Alexander 10:38 pm on September 27, 2023
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Test Team Reps: Submit Your Votes

From August 15 to September 22, 2023, the Test team opened nominations for new reps to serve over the 2023-2024 term. The polls are now open and ready for your votes!

What Are Team Reps?

For a refresher on the Test Team RepTeam 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. role, please see the most recent call for nominations. The Test team will elect two team reps for the next term, to collaborate and share responsibilities.

Who Are the Nominees?

In alphabetical order, this term’s nominees are:

Ankit K Gupta – @ankit-k-gupta
Pooja Derashri – @webtechpooja
Rajin Sharwar – @rajinsharwar

Where Can I Vote? 🗳️

Please cast your votes through this anonymous public poll. You may vote for two nominees, but once submitted, you cannot vote again.

Vote Now

👉🏻 The poll will remain open for two weeks, until October 12, 00:00 UTC. After that, votes will be tallied and reps selected based on votes received.

#team-reps

Brian Alexander 6:54 pm on August 15, 2023
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Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations

Update: This call for nominations has been extended to 2023-09-23 00:00 (see comment below).

Update 2: Nominations for the 2023-2024 term are closed.

It’s time again to nominate the Test Team Reps who will serve for the next 12 months!

This Call for Nominations is open until ~~2023-08-31 12:00~~ 2023-09-23 00:00. Please leave a comment identifying your nominee(s) before then.