Meeting Notes for Tuesday 15th October 2019

A meeting was held with 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).

Updates

In the past seven days:

  • 238 tickets were opened
  • 233 tickets were closed:
    • 208 tickets were made live
      • 3 new Themes were made live
      • 205 Theme updates were made live
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live
    • 15 tickets were not-approved
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded

Handbook update regarding child themes

The current handbook is not presenting the recommended practices of how a child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. should handle loading the styles and overwriting the parent theme styles.

The argument is that child themes shouldn’t have to load the parent stylesheet using enqueue.
The handbook should explain the loading order and the non.overriding the stylesheet handle.

The proposal is to open up a google doc and make a draft of what would go to the handbook, this could then be discussed and added to the handbook.

Next review shindig planning

The last shindig had a low turnout, and there is a problem of having only one person doing it in one time zone. There was not much involvement from the community.

For now, we won’t continue with the monthly shindigs, unless people show more interest in it.

Featured page issue – proposals for solving it

During the last triage, there was a discussion regarding this ticket.
One proposal was to have a curated list of the themes featured for a certain amount of time.

A number of issues were discussed:

  • What are the criteria based on which the themes will be chosen?
  • How often will the themes be on the popular page?
  • Who will choose the themes?

We’ll need to come up with the rules regarding the featured themes (minimal upsell, unique design, good coding practices).

The TRT representatives will try to see if they can get an initial proposal regarding the featured page, the post will be made on the make page and we can continue discussing the details there, and finalize the discussion on the next meeting.

Other news

Next triage will be held on Wednesday October 23rd, 17:00 UTC

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