The Test Team helps manage testing and triage across the WordPress ecosystem. They focus on user testing of the editing experience and WordPress dashboard, replicating and documenting bug reports, and supporting a culture of review and triage across the project.
If you’d like to help test Full Site Editing, please join the FSE Outreach Program. You can find current calls for testing for this program here and you can join the fun in #fse-outreach-experiment.
Update: Nominations for the 2022-2023 cycle are now closed.
A little over a year has passed since the last annual Test Team Rep nomination cycle, and it’s been over two months since an interim acting rep was elected. 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 2022-08-26 12:00. 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.
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:
<test-chat> sessions (example).<test-chat> (example) and <test-triage> (example) sessions in #core-test.<test-chat> session recaps, and post to Make WordPress Test.These duties are shared between the primary and secondary Reps (see Rep Responsibilities on the Team Rep page).
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.
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 @Piotrek Boniu or @ironprogrammer 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 2022-08-26 12:00.
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!” 😉
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.
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).
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 @hellofromtonya for review of this post.
One candidate was nominated during the open nomination period and accepted their nomination. The new interim 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. for the current term is Brian Alexander ( @ironprogrammer ).
He will partner with Piotr Boniu (@boniu91), who became a Test Team Rep in 3 August 2021.
Brian has a background that ranges from graphic design to full-stack development, digital marketing, and customer support. Since being introduced to WordPress in 2007, he has loved exploring the many ways the platform can be extended and used as a serious content management system.
Within the project, he is a full-time sponsored contributor, served as co-Test Lead for 6.0, and is the current interim Test Team Rep.
Brian lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter, and six egg-laying hens. He runs, cycles, plays the drums, and makes terrific homemade soap. And he never turns down a chance for a cup of good coffee.
You can read more about him on his profile page.
Update: Nominations are now closed.
As announced in today’s team chat, I’ve stepped down as one of the Test Team Reps. As the next term’s elections aren’t until the end of July 2022 (i.e. new term starts 3 August 2022), the team agreed to do a nomination call to select a new 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. (to take my place) for the remainder of this current term.
tl;dr
A team reps is responsible for communicating on behalf of the team to the other contributor groups and teams via weekly updates and cross-team chats.
It is not called “team lead” for a reason. While the person elected as a team rep will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, remember that the team rep role is designed to change hands regularly.
Team Rep is a leadership role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role. Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities. Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.
from Team Reps on Updates
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 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.
A rep must be committed to showing up each week and doing the weekly duties.
tl;dr
Please nominate in the comments of this post. You can write a comment as simple as “I nominate @the_persons_username.” Self-nominations are welcome by leaving a comment such as “I nominate myself.”
The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 15:00 UTC.
Each person who is nominated will be contacted to discuss qualifications and to accept or decline their 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” 😉
An election will happen if there is more than one accepted nomination; else, the one accepted nomination will become the new rep. The election will be by an anonymous poll (example). The poll will remain open for 5 days.
Once the results are done, the new team rep will be announced in a post (example).
Ready? It’s time to nominate someone to serve for as our Test Team Rep for the remaining current term.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments. Happy nominating!
Props to @ironprogrammer and @boniu91 for peer review.
Two candidates were nominated during the open nomination period, both of whom accepted their nominations. The new Test Team Reps for 2021 (and beyond) are Piotr Boniu (@boniu91) and Tonya Mork (@hellofromtonya)!
Piotr is fascinated by WordPress since 8 years. Firstly, it was just a fun for him, later it became a way to live. He attends WordCamps whenever possible since WCEU 2017 in Paris. In 2019 in Brighton he was a speaker.
Within the project, he served as the 5.9 Test Lead.
In his career, he’s transitioning into technical product management for a WordPress performance product company, after having previously served as a QA Engineer and Technical Support Engineer.
On the personal side, Piotr is a resident of Canary Islands, previously lived in Madrid and Warsaw. He resides in a small town called Puerto de la Cruz with a girlfriend and his two cats. He’s obsessed with technology and gadgets that are making life easier, his free time is filled with hiking, sports and swimming in the ocean.
You can read more about him on his profile page.
Tonya is a leader, architect, engineer (software and electrical), educator, and learner. She became hooked on contributing during the 5.6 release cycle. She saw the impact the Test Team can and could have on the project. She brings her empowerment and transformational approach to help the team rebuild itself, help fuel continuous improvement, and help contributors get started, gain and grow their skills, and grow their impact.
Within the project, she served as the 5.6 and 5.7 Triage Lead, coached the 5.8 triage and test release squad, is a Build/Test Tooling co-maintainer, and is a full-time contributor (as of February).
Outside of the project, she’s likely best known as a developer educator. She’s been leading and advising multi-disciplined engineering teams for over 3 decades in the areas of architecture, quality, testing, performance, and operations.
On the personal side, Tonya lives in a small fishing village on the NW coast of Lake Michigan in the US with her spouse (celebrated their 35th anniversary this year), dog (who thinks he’s a cat), and cat (who thinks he’s a dog and ruler of the house).
You can read more about her journey on HeroPress and her profile page.
The Test Team has been without reps for years (see slack thread). With the team’s revival, it’s time to nominate (and then elect) team reps (i.e. an abbreviation for team representative).
tl;dr
Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the team to the other contributor groups and teams via weekly updates and cross-team chats.
In 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, each team has on average one or two reps. While some teams have more than two, I propose we stick with electing one to two reps for this term. For the historians out there, this role goes way back to 2012.
It is not called “team lead” for a reason. While people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, remember that 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. role is designed to change hands regularly.
Team Rep is a leadership role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role. Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities. Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.
from Team Reps on Updates
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 serve the WordPress open source project.
tl;dr
We nominate people in the comments of this post. You can write a comment as simple as “I nominate @the_persons_username.” Self-nominations are welcome by leaving a comment such as “I nominate myself.” If you want to nominate someone in private, please reach out to me (@hellofromtonya) on Slack.
The deadline for nominations is Monday, August 2.
Each person who is nominated will be contacted to discuss qualifications and to accept or decline their 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” 😉
If there are enough accepted nominations that an election is necessary, then we’ll use an anonymous poll for the election (example). The poll will remain open for 2 weeks.
Once the results are done, the new team rep(s) will be announced in a post (example).
Ready? It’s time to nominate people to serve for a year as our Test Team Reps.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments. Happy nominating!
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