@bethsoderberg welcomed newcomers and folks who were first timers at the WCUS contributor 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/..
Note: The Community team meeting conflicts with this. So far we’ll just keep it on our radar.
This meeting is to recap WCUS for those not there and use these notes to start an outline of next steps where we can take.
WCUS Accomplishments
Began to define new processes to make them more scalable
Set up GitHub 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/ repository
Audited all the lesson plans in preparation for migration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies., including those missing images or in need of updating
Brainstormed new lesson plans due to changes in WordPress
Started a new handbook
Goals Defined
1. create handbook based on new workflow
2. move lesson plans into github
3. reorganizing our website
4. fix the broken images
5. update for 4.8/4.9/gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
6. make workshop recommendations from existing plans
7. accessibility 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) workshop
8. consider team roles
Question: Should images wait until the migration to github?
@juliekuehl answered that it would be more efficient regarding the images.
@juliekuehl provided a link to github: https://github.com/wptrainingteam
@juliekuehl provided a link to an LP there: https://github.com/wptrainingteam/child-themes
So it is decided that images will wait but we can start assigning out the rest of the content updates now so long as they are text changes done in make.wordpress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com//training.
@juliekuehl suggested bringing down LPs on Make as they are moved to github
github workflow:
@juliekuehl : We opted for a repo for each lesson plan.
It’s not to terrible to simply copy over what is in Make
It’s cleaning up that takes time
It needs to be converted to markdown
@juliekuehl : Put together a screencast of how to work within github. But the workflow for maintenance and governance might still need work.
@donkiely and @pbrocks suggested ways of automating using either tools or websites that convert to markdown.
Discussion on moving them all over vs. having a workflow first. @juliekuehl suggested assigning lesson plans in Make for copy edits and having @pbrocks do the screencast of working in github. @lapinell will transcribe into an accessible format. @juliekuehl will coordinate on the content of the screencast.
@donkiely asked about ways of keeping track of high-level view of the status of LPs.
@juliekuehl said github projects can handle that.
Workflows
@Josh McIntyre took these awesome notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IrOklPHtJOKi0UtAdVQgZaqdxx7ptEGpn70FJkn9FCw/edit
Here are some highlights:
#1 – we need more people to help lead team meetings. This is a task that anyone who is familiar with our team/workflows/current priorities can take on. Feel free to reach out to me/@melindahelt/@juliekuehl if this is something you’d like to take on moving forward.
#2 We also decided that we’d like to have regularly scheduled team video calls to check in that way quarterly. Our proposed dates for these are the last Thursday of March, June, September.
#3 Our last big check-in of the year would be at WCUS contributor day as it has been in the past
#4 We need to write a handbook
MISC
@esteschris and @donkiely volunteered to check our Support Flow emails – these are emails being sent through the contact forms on our make site. BUT the first time @esteschris tried to email someone back the other day he ran into permissions issues. Also suggested changes to contact form at https://slack-files.com/T024MFP4J-F8B1T80G7-71f05e08c1. Please review by next meeting.
@juliekuehl : I may do the same for the GitHub topics/labels/etc
@pbrocks put the orientation repo on https://github.com/wptrainingteam/info-presentation
Working on content edits over the next week:
@esteschris
@donkiely
Last thing:
@bethsoderberg p.s. I have tried to change the meeting time everywhere it is listed – if folks could tell me if they spot a reference to our meeting time in the wild that is wrong/has an old time, please reach out and let me know!
