Global group meeting We had a meeting today…

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We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

We do license, security, and code quality reviews.

We help build and maintain default themes.

The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-based themes.

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Handbooks and review requirements

The team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data, and helps the documentation team with the Theme Developer Handbook.

Coding standards and plugins

We maintain the WPThemeReview Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer, the Theme Sniffer plugin and Theme Check

Code Packages

We have code packages for themes available for use on Github and Packagist

Communication

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Global group meeting

We had a meeting today about theme reviews globally.

Archive: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1417082447003953

Event promotion.
Promoting events as they come up. Includes WordCamps, Contribution Days and causal get togethers for reviewing.

Country event reporting.
This is being done through their usual channels per country.

Contribution pack.
This will have a guide to getting started, doing_it_wrong theme and an offline handbook.
We need focus on doing_it_wrong theme.

Getting mentors in areas.
We saw this pat week how important this was through Nepal and London. We even got a new mentor due to London event.
We need to encourage people to gain experience reviewing and then they can move onto being mentors. Ideally we suggest 6+ months.

We would like to see translations offered on the handbook. This avoids having to duplicate this outside or on another source. It also keeps the team from getting fragmented.
@feedmymedia is going to look into this.

Survey.
This is on hold while we focus on translations. @shinichin will consider this maybe. It was only an idea.

Communication and tools wise we will look to Polygots and how this happens as a community.

Japan is planning a contribution day and this would be a good testing ground for the contribution pack and doing_it_wrong theme.

Tammie 11:30 am on November 27, 2014

Japan’s contribution day is here: http://arewemeetingyet.com/Tokyo/2014-12-20/13:00/Contribution%20Day%20in%20Osaka
- Mayo Moriyama 11:42 am on November 27, 2014
  
  Thanks! It’s not on meetup.com. you can see here: http://wbosaka.doorkeeper.jp/events/17650
Ian Stewart 8:58 pm on November 28, 2014

The contribution pack sounds like a super-cool project.
Ashley Shaw 5:54 pm on December 2, 2014

I am working out a plan for the doing_it_wrong githubGitHub 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ wiki documentation with @jcastaneda
ShinichiN 9:04 am on December 15, 2014

Sorry that I’ve not been able to get involved much. Is there any updates about the contribution pack?

Let me see what we can do at the contribution day in Osaka on 20th Dec, please.