Meeting Notes for Tuesday 24th September 2019

Theme review team holds twice-monthly meetings. All members are encouraged to attend and new faces are welcomed.

This meeting we had an announcement about a new team structure as well as discussions about the future and the team’s purpose, according to the proposed agenda.

The following is the recap of the meeting, you can read the meeting transcript in the slack archives (a Slack account is required).

New Team Structure:

Team no longer has leads – the team now has respresentatives and it is a flat team structure with loosely defined roles and responsibilities where individuals can contribute in ways that they feel strongly about.

More about that in this post: New Theme Review Team Structure

Ticket Graph:

You can see the latest stats and the graph on the themes trac system.

In the past 7 days

• 304 tickets were opened
• 301 tickets were closed:
  • 291 tickets were made live
    • 12 new Themes were made live
    • 279 Theme updates were made live
    • 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live
    • 10 tickets were not-approved
• 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded

Update on Twenty Twenty

The latest default theme Twenty Twenty Theme was ready to roll into the 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. package and is now confirmed as on track for release in 5.3.

Lots of contributors as you can see on this trac ticket. Big thank you to everyone mentioned in the props.

Uncommon Theme Queue Issues:

@acosmin mentioned there has been an issue with mistaken theme uploads lately. We need to investigate this further, but a trac ticket was opened that seeks to solve this issue.

Review Shindig:

There was a discussion on when the shindig would happen. A weekend event with a focus on Saturday was proposed. Potentially 1st Saturday of the month. No fixed date was decided on.

The point of the shindig is to share review tips and review themes together. It can take place in the #theme-review 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/. channel with optionally a voice/video call if people are interested in that.

You are encouraged to leave comments below if you missed the meeting.

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