Meeting notes Tuesday October 13, 2020

Welcome to the Themes team!

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.

If this sounds interesting, read more about the team here. Check out our guide for new reviewers and the frequently asked questions.

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

Meet us in the #themes 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.

Meetings:

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 15:00 UTC.

#themereview

Weekly Updates:

(the list includes both new tickets as well as updates too.
Current statistics can be found on https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/)

264 tickets were opened

268 tickets were closed:

255 tickets were made live.

30 new Themes were made live.

225 Theme updates were made live.

3 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.

12 tickets were not-approved.

1 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Open Floor

Discussed moving the meeting time to an earlier time (see suggestion in the agenda comments). The suggestion generally received positive feedback from people in different timezones – including the Americas, Asia & Europe.

@joyously brought up the subject of quality control in premium themes, and how that is harmful to the WordPress ecosystem.

Feedback on this ticket for parsing theme readme files for the repository was requested: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36971. Getting information from the readme files would be the first step to start redesigning the themes repository and be able to build something, so this needs to happen before we can move forward.