Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 12, 2024

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

:one:

Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 784 tickets were opened
  • 772 tickets were closed
    • 764 tickets were made live.
      • 6 new Themes were made live.
      • 758 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 8 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: 4 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb)

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.

:two:

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 2024 Recap

@bijayyadav and @onemaggie were table leads for the themes team during the 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/.. During the meeting, Bijay said, “We had around 10-12 attendees attending our theme table. We described the community themes to them and asked them to contribute to them.”

He added “Some of the attendees were first-time contributors so we helped them set up a community theme and also showed them how to create an 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. theme. Around 4 patches were submitted for those community themes on the contributor’s day.

They also showed them the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ theme guidelines.

I was there during the contributor day and it was great.

:three: Open Floor

There was nothing to discuss during the open floor. The meeting went short.

See you at the next meeting and it is on March 26.

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Themes team meeting agenda for March 12, 2024

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting for this month is scheduled for March 12.

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 12, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time at the end for an open floor session where you are welcome to ask questions or share any themes-related information.

We highly encourage all members, as well as anyone with an interest, to participate. If you have specific agenda items you would like to include, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Notes – February 27, 2024

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

:one: Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 909 tickets were opened
  • 890 tickets were closed
    • 884 tickets were made live.
      • 9 new Themes were made live.
      • 875 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 6tickets 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: 4 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb)

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.

4 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 is live in the last 7 days.

:two: 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 2024 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/.

WordCamp Asia Contributor Day is happening on March 7, 2024 at Taipei, Taiwan. @onemaggie and @bijayyadav will be leading the themes table.

If you want to learn about WordPress block themes and want to contribute to the community themes project, please join the table.

You can check this blog post to learn more about the themes table.

:three: Contributor Mentorship program and community themes

There is a contributor mentorship program running and @onemaggie and @kafleg are mentoring the mentees and trying to onboard many contributors for the community themes project.

:four: WordPress 6.5, Font Library, and implementation in the themes

During the meeting @digambarpradhan asked a few questions,

  • Is there a plan to allow themes to use a font library?
  • Some issues regarding UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. if the font library isn’t allowed on themes?

Also there is a discussion thread in the 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. I highly recommend checking that. \

:five: Theme test data especially for block testing

Theme test data which is specially build for block theme is available for testing. Thank you @poena for the great work.

We recommend theme authors to check the test data.

There was no agenda or any discussion during the open floor.

#meeting, #meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Notes – January 23, 2024

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

:one: Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 688 tickets were opened
  • 715 tickets were closed
    • 701 tickets were made live.
      • 55 new Themes were made live.
      • 646 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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: 4 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb)

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.

17 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 is live in the last 7 days.

This discussion was started based on the meta ticket created by @iamtakashi.

After the discussion, we concluded that the best action is to message the team reps about multiple submissions. Then, themes team reps will handle those on a case-by-case basis.

:three: New requirements for settings pages & onboarding in themes

@Travel_girl created this ticket in metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.. The ticket was just to share the update of what she is doing. But during the meeting, we also discussed how we can effectively treat accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-ready themes.

@greenshady said, “A11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)(Accessibility) has always been an issue because of the lack of reviewers doing a11y-specific reviews. We used to have a couple of reviewers specifically for that tag. The best way to help in this area is to get involved in the review process, I think. Unless there are some automated tools that we could look into.”

And I requested everyone to report the themes that are not A11y ready but have accessibility-ready tag.

:four: Provide information about committing theme updates directly to SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/.

@dufresnesteven created this meta ticket.

@greenshady asked, “Should we tackle this in the Theme Handbook or the Make Themes Handbook?”. I said, ” It can be in the Make themes handbook. The theme handbook is for general and this process is for theme authors only.” And Justin agreed on it.

Also, the meta team is looking for this ticket and we’ll soon confirm the text and update the email template.

:five: Open floor

The updated Advanced Topics chapter for the Theme Handbook is nearly ready. I plan to start moving the docs over to DotOrg as post drafts today: https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/1416

If you are attending WCAsia in Taipei and want to lead the themes table or patterns table, do let me know. We are looking for 1 table lead for themes and 2 table leads for patterns.

#meeting, #meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes team meeting agenda for January 23, 2024

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting for this month is scheduled for January 23.

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, January 23, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time at the end for an open floor session where you are welcome to ask questions or share any themes-related information.

We highly encourage all members, as well as anyone with an interest, to participate. If you have specific agenda items you would like to include, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Allow larger theme authors to submit multiple themes (Meta ticket)
  • The current state of accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-ready Themes (Meta ticket)
  • Provide information about committing theme updates directly to SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. (Meta ticket)
  • Open Floor

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team