KafleG 5:29 am on November 21, 2022
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Themes team meeting agenda for November 22, 2022

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 22nd of November.

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, November 22 2022, 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 updates
  2. Nomination of Themes Team lead
  3. Test Theme Check pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. PRs
  4. Documentation issues tracker
  5. 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. Nomination of Themes Team lead

The Themes team is looking for team representatives for the year 2023. It’s time to nominate team representatives. Nominate from here.

3. Test Theme Check plugin PRs

Theme Check plugin is a regularly updated plugin. There are a few PRs to check in 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Check and leave your comment.

4. Documentation issues tracker

We would like to request your input on documentation related to themes.

5. Open floor

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

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

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

KafleG 9:57 am on November 16, 2022  

Nominations Call for the themes team representatives: 2023 Edition

The Themes team is looking for team representatives for the year 2023. . It’s time to nominate team representatives. We would like to request you to comment in the below comment section about your nomination. Based on the nominations, 2 themes team representatives will be elected.

Currently, @acosmin and me (@kafleg) are the team representatives. @utz119 left the team reps role a few weeks back.

What are Team Reps?

Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the team. 

In the WordPress open-source project, each team has on average one or two reps (i.e. an abbreviation for team representative).  

Read here to know more about team reps.

Responsibilities:

  • They represent the team
  • Communication with other teams 
  • Post weekly updates 
  • Mentor theme reviewers 
  • Transfer themes, suspend or delist themes (if necessary)
  • Conduct team meetings, write meeting agendas and meeting notes 
  • Guide theme authors and reply to their questions 
  • Regularly check themes team email and follow-up etc. 
  • Maintain Theme Check pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
  • Review Patterns and set live or delist them

What are the qualifications?

A representative should be an active member of the WordPress Community. Someone reliable and trusted, familiar with WordPress theme development.

How to nominate someone? 

The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, November 30, 2022.

Nomination text sample: “I would like to nominate @nominee_wp_username”. Or you can also nominate yourself. You can write “I would like to nominate myself”. 

If you get nominated but if you are not ready for the reps, you can decline it as well.

How Will the Election Work?

If we get more than 2 names and can’t decide on reps by acceptance, then we will go with the voting like an election. We will write another post with detailed information about the voting process. (if necessary). 

Once the results are done, the new team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.(s) will be announced in a new blog post. 

If you have any questions, comment below. Happy Nominating!

KafleG 4:12 am on November 15, 2022
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KafleG 3:38 am on November 9, 2022
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – November 08, 2022

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on November 08, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

1. Weekly updates

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

In the past 7 days,

  • 433 tickets were opened
  • 427 tickets were closed
    • 421 tickets were made live.
      • 29 new Themes were made live.
      • 392 Theme updates were made live.
      • 3 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
    • 6 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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

Number of reviewers: 3 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @stalukder03)

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. Theme Stats

  • 5 Block themes are live for the past 7 days
  • 5 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 172 Block Themes in the themes repository.

2. Theme Handbook Update

Currently, there are 5 open issues in the themes label. You can help with this as well. Thank you, @nielslange and @poena, for going over the handbook. 

3. Open Floor

@shivashankerbhatta talked about rules for the designing FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.(block theme) theme. He asked, “Could any of the theme authors redesign the FSE version of their older theme?”

His concern was, block themes are more in the design. So, how we can compare the design of the themes that are submitted to the repository? He said, “We should think more seriously about the FSE themes. Some people did and will do similar designs with different codes and we just left it by mentioning the original author’s credits. Basically, we had not much talked about the appearance.”

Also, he asked, “Do you have any idea to build/introduce the option to switch between classic and FSE? Is there any rule to stop this kind of option?”

@kafleg request him to develop the theme based on it and wants to see how it is implemented.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 3:21 am on November 8, 2022
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