Themes Team Meeting Notes – May 24, 2022

Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on May 24, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel. 

1. Weekly updates

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

• 378 tickets were opened
• 388 tickets were closed:
  • 371 tickets were made live.
    • 31 new Themes were made live.
    • 340 Theme updates were made live.
    • 1 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
  • 17 tickets were not-approved.
  • 0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4
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2. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2022

WordCamp Europe 2022 is fast approaching. Our themes team representative @kafleg will be joining virtually, welcoming new contributors. In addition, some of the former representatives will be in Porto. If you are interested in becoming a theme reviewer, please let us know by commenting below. 

The contributor will be held on the first day, June 2, 2022. You can find the schedule here. 

Registration is required to attend WordCamp Europe in person. Tickets are still available. Learn more about WordCamp Europe or get your tickets here at this link. 

3. WordPress 6.0 release

WordPress 6.0 is scheduled to be released on 24th May 2022.  Theme authors are strongly encouraged to test the themes.

4. Open Floor

We discussed how the contributors can record their time contributing for the Five for the Future (5ftF) program. Please leave a comment if you like to give feedback here or on Github. 

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