Training Team Meeting Recap – 10th October 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a 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/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 21 attendees:  @piyopiyofox,  @sumitsingh,  @webtechpooja,  @chetan200891,  @nahidsharifkomol,  @devmuhib,  @iqbalpb,  @jdy68,  @psykro,  @sancastiza,  @nayanchamp7,  @karthickmurugan,  @huzaifaalmesbah(async),  @lada7042(async),  @sierratr(async),  @west7(async),  @courtneypk(async),  @benjirahmed(async),  @quitevisible(async),  @mebo(async),  @vanpariyar(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here: @Stuti Goyal @Vincent Martinat @Lisa Sabin-Wilson @zstepek @Nabin @Parag Wadhwani @Rashi Gupta  

News

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Meeting Note Takers

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• October 17 – @huzaifaalmesbah
• October 24 – @Nazrul Islam Nayan
• October 31 – @devmuhib

Looking for feedback

• Looking for feedback: Updates to GitHub issue templates and labels — we need feedback on what labels and templates 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ bring the most value and are still relevant to our needs.
• We have priority issues that need updating open in GitHub that are labeled 6.4
  • Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues cc/ @Courtney P.K. @Courtney
  • Please note that the most helpful way to validate these issues is to note what specifically needs to change in the current content
• Help Audit content for Learning Pathways — we need volunteers to help us identify the content we can utilize or enhance and incorporate it into our lessons. Learn more about how to get involved in this post.
• Share your thoughts on these updates to the Team Roles handbook page, specifically the Team Representatives section by reviewing and commenting on this document.
  • We will be publishing a call for 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. nominations by next week. 

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

This week, the dev-squad triaged 2 new PRs and one new bug:

• Added IDs to headings for anchor links #1880
• Tutorial: Using page templates #1900
• Khmer Language causes overlay on Lesson Plan listings, hiding selection boxes (Firefox only) #1888

There was some discussion around #1880, which the dev squad would like to bring to the team.

Other News

• Discussion: Defining Active and Engaged Faculty
  How can we better define “activity” and “engagement” for Faculty members in the Faculty program?
• Get involved with Hacktoberfest today! A new post detailing how to get involved is now up on our website.
• As noted with our pending handbook page updates, the team reps want to make it clear that Training Team Nominations are coming!

Please see the Nomination for Training Team Reps 2023 post for details on how we handled nominating new team reps last year. We are hoping to make this process more clear for future reps and potential leaders.

• Badges Rewarded  – Congrats @Muhibul Haque! Thank you for your contributions to the team.

Open requests for review

See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

Tutorials

• Applying Duotone Filters to Change Color Effects – Workshop #513
• Tutorial – Common APIs – Internationalisation #1898

Translated Content

• Indonesian translation for Lesson Plan “Intro to the Site Editor and Templates ” #1488
• Indonesian translation for Tutorial “Choosing and Installing a Theme” #1508
• Khmer translation for Tutorial “Getting to know the WordPress Dashboard” #1535

If you are able to pick any of these reviews up, please comment on the issue directly.

Project Updates

• Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – Learning Pathway outlines have been published

Open Discussions

The discussion topic at hand revolves around GitHub issue #1880, which involves adding IDs to headings for anchor links on the website. The dev squad is seeking clarity on whether to use sentence case or all lowercase for internal anchor link fragments. The HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. spec doesn’t specify a requirement, but lowercase is the common practice.

The dilemma is whether to formalize and document this practice across the site. @Jonathan suggests switching to all lowercase, but this would require a thorough review and update of existing lesson plans. The group is open to discussion on this matter.

@Destiny raises whether this issue will still be relevant if the content is consolidated according to the new information architecture for Learn. @Jonathan mentions that it depends on whether the “Tip” section in the Lesson Plan synced pattern is carried over to the new content types. Removing the tip section entirely is a possible solution.

The group agrees that the new architecture may change the current situation, so they consider merging the PR and addressing individual lesson plans on a case-by-case basis.

Asynchronous participants are encouraged to share their thoughts on the GitHub issue. @Jonathan notes that it’s essential to consider the impact of the new architecture.

The conversation ends with @Destiny mentioning a request for members of the dev-squad to review and test a PR for the Sensei Pro upgrade created by @Jonathan, asking for help from contributors with developer experience.

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