Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Chat scheduled for Thursday, 22 January 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 is – @juanmaguitar
  • This week’s note-taker is – @juanmaguitar
• Test Team Discussions
  • “betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. testers” for the new Test Contributor Pathway course
  • Creating a new page in the handbook with a “template” for Test Chats
  • Add a label (i.e.  week-in-test, test-chat-summary, test-chat-agenda) to posts that are regularly posted in the https://make.wordpress.org/test/ so a list of them can be easily accessed (see full suggestion in Slack)
  • Call for help, building the 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/. bot for core. More info at https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8157#comment:4
• Open Floor
  • Got a topic? Add in comments below, or bring it up live during the chat.
• WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
  • How to use DataForm to create plugin settings pages
  • WordPress 6.9.1 Release Schedule
  • A New Home for WordPress Education Programs
  • WordPress 7.0 Call for Volunteers
  • Dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3
  • Proposal: 2026 Major Release Schedule
  • What’s new for developers? (January 2026)
• Test Team Announcements
  • Launch Information for the Test Team Training Program
  • Week in Test: January 19, 2026
• Call for Testing
  • We have Patch Testing Issues that need testing

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