Themes team meeting agenda for March 28, 2023

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 28th of March.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members, and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting Agenda

  • Weekly updates
  • Update themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml with WP 6.1 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. markup
  • Open Floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. Update themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml with WP 6.1 block markup

We are looking for help to test the theme unit test data. You can find the instruction on how to test it on GitHub. Or you can follow these steps,

  1. Download the file
  2. Activate the WordPress Importer tool (Go to Tools > Import > WordPress)
  3. Import the file, check the box for downloading the media
  4. Test all posts, pages, and archives. Both the old and the new content should load correctly.

If you find any issues, you can comment on 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/ or in the comment section below.

3. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share theme-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

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Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 14, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 14, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 438 tickets were opened
  • 427 tickets were closed
  • 420 tickets were made live.
  • 7 new Themes were made live.
  • 413 Theme updates were made live.
  • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 6 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 2  (@kafleg@acosmin)

2. Community Themes Project

If you are not aware of the community themes project read here. In short, the community themes initiative is a collaborative effort to create 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. themes in much the same way as the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Twenty* themes are built.

During the meeting, @onemaggie informed us that there are already 3 themes underway. It’s really great news for this initiative.

@greenshady shared the GitHub link and requested everyone to join and contribute.

@shivashankerbhatta asked, “Is it only for individual contribution, or if any theme company can get involved”? Justin(@greenshady) replied, “Yes, anyone can be involved. The themes will be submitted under the WordPress username just like the core/default themes. So, it’s basically a collaborative effort to create more quality block themes for the WordPress community”. @onemaggie added, “It is a project born to foster collaboration and to spread the knowledge on how to build block themes.’

After checking the video and meeting notes, @shivashankerbhatta realize that the main problem will be is to maintain the themes. Justin said, “It is a potential problem that was brought up just based on the history of the Twenty themes not really being updated that often. It’s more of an “unknown” than a definite problem. I’m optimistic about keeping these themes updated since block themes are, by nature, simpler than classic themes”.

I would like to request you all spread the message about the community themes initiative and get more contributors involved.

3. Open Floor

There was nothing raised during the open floor.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @rinkuyadav999, @benlumia007, @shivashankerbhatta, @mhamal, @onemaggie for joining the meeting.

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Themes team meeting agenda for March 14, 2023

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 14th of March.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members, and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting Agenda

  • Weekly updates
  • Community Themes Project
  • Open Floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. Community Themes Project

Did you miss the Kickoff meeting for community themes? I would like to request you to check this post.

Summary: Community Themes Project Kickoff – Make WordPress Themes

3. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share theme-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Notes – February 28, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on February 28, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

  • This week’s meeting agendas can be found here
  • The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @kafleg
  • Full transcript – #themereview channel

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 450 tickets were opened
  • 468 tickets were closed
  • 457 tickets were made live.
  • 31 new Themes were made live.
  • 426 Theme updates were made live.
  • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 10 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 3  (@kafleg@acosmin@bijayyadav)

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. Asia 2023 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.

As you all know that WordCamp Asia 2023 contributor day went successfully. @bijayyadav and @sanjiv-saha were the table lead for the themes team.

During the meeting, @bijayyadav shared his experience with the themes table. He wrote, “We had a fantastic day. around 10-12, attendees attended the themes table. Some of them were new to the WordPress themes review process so we guided them on how to review WordPress themes and also showed them the theme review guidelines. I reviewed a theme to demonstrate how we review WordPress themes. Few of the attendees were theme authors themselves with some of the popular themes on WordPress theme repo. We discussed on differences between classic themes and 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. themes and also what the best theme development approach would be.”.

Also, he added, “Overall it was fun and we also learned a lot from other fellow theme developers. There was not any difficulty as it was like a discussion session. All of us shared our views and our approaches to the work”.

@greenshady asked for the recorded things of the Contributor Day. As there was no complete recording but Contributor Day had a live webinar of 30 minutes and talked with table leads and the contributors. You can check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4miBF5oEvU This might help you to understand how beautiful the Contributor Day was. 🙂

3. Open Floor

There was a nice discussion happened. If you want to read it completely, go here.

@greenshady jumped in with a pre-announcement around a community themes proposal. He said,

“I wanted to share an initiative that was born and discussed with multiple themers that will help promote the creation of quality block themes and spread knowledge around building such themes.

The idea is to create a community themes repo that works the same way we collaborate when we build the default theme but all year round. We would build block themes together and help each other learn in the process. It won’t be subject to a deadline and we could have more than one theme being developed at once, allowing for more flexibility.

These themes would be released into the repository under the WordPress username the same way default themes and TT1 blocks are, giving appropriate credit to contributors.

There will soon be a post on the make blog with more info and to organize a hallway hangout to answer questions and discuss the idea further.”

@onemaggie added, “It would be great if any of you would like to participate in this idea in any capacity: with designs, code, ideas or reviews, all of it can help. Even just spreading the word to people who could be interested in learning and want to learn by doing”.

@poena asked, Are we using the theme experiments repository and the “core themes projectsslackSlack 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? Maggie said, she started a new repo for it and she is fine to use the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes project slack channel for the discussions.

If you are interested and want to contribute to community themes, join the #themereview channel or #core-themes-projects slack channel and get started. We are looking for your help in any area that you can.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @bijayyadav, @amin7, @onemaggie, @elmastudio, @mhamal and @poena for joining the meeting.

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Themes team meeting agenda for February 28, 2023

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 28th of February.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members, and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting agenda

  1. Weekly work updates
  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. Asia 2023 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
  3. Open floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day

WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day occurred on 17th February in Bangkok, Thailand. @bijayyadav and @sanjiv-saha were the table lead for the themes team. We would like to listen from them about the experience they have. Their experience will help us to make the upcoming Contributor Day even better.

3. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share theme-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team