How We Work Together

The Training Team has three main places where discussions take place.

1. Team blog https://make.wordpress.org/training/
   • This is the team’s public facing discussion place. All decisions should be discussed and announced in blog posts to allow the widest audience to participate. These are also indexed by search engines and leave a public record of what the Training Team has worked on through it’s history.
2. 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 #training
   • This is where you can connect with other contributors in the team in real-time. It’s where you can ask experienced teammates for help while working through team tasks.
   • Training team meetings are conducted in Slack. But decisions are not made in Slack. If an item needs a discussion/decision, then it should be published as a post on the team blog so that the general public can see the discussion and join in on the decision making, too.
3. 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/ https://github.com/WordPress/Learn
   • This is where individual tasks are tracked. These include content creation, content translation, website management, etc. GitHub issues are organized into at least 6 project boards. You can read more about the Training Team’s GitHub boards in our handbook: How we use GitHub
4. Google Drive Training Team Google Drive
   • To centralise all Learn WordPress resources in one place, the Training Team uses Google Drive as a central storage platform. This allows contributors to easily upload, update, and collaborate on materials, ensuring consistency and 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).
     

If you’re new to the team, or don’t have access to any of the above, then come complete the Training Team’s onboarding program – Getting Started. You’ll be guided through setting up accounts, finding your area of expertise, completing your first contribution, and more in just 30-60 minutes!

Meetings

The Training Team meets weekly to connect, coordinate tasks, and review progress. Here are our meeting times:

• Global Team Meeting: Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC
• Triage Squad Triage Session: biweekly Thursdays at 07:00 UTC (Currently on hold)
• Coffee Hours – (Currently on hold)

Meeting Details

Here is more information about how each of these meetings are conducted:

• Global Team Meeting – 1 hour
  • Text-based meeting in the #training channel in Slack where we cover news, project updates, and other discussion topics.
  • The agenda will be created in GitHub and shared in the #training Slack channel by Monday each week.
  • Anyone can contribute to discussions asynchronously, and meeting notes will be published by the end of each week.
• Triage Squad GitHub Triage Session – 30 minutes
  • Text-based meeting in the #meta-learn channel in Slack where we triage pull requests and issues regarding Learn WordPress website development.
  • The triage session’s focus is to help move GitHub issues forward. We will not be reviewing/verifying code, but instead reaching out to the issue submitters, helping them move their requests forward.
• Coffee Hours – 1 hour
  • Video-based social chats. You can also attend with audio only, or via text in the Slack thread that will be created at the time of the meeting.
  • There is no formal agenda. These are designed for team members to connect with each other, and are also great opportunities to ask questions about contributing to the team.
  • The Zoom link will be shared in the #training Slack channel at the time of the meeting each week.
  • The team is currently not running regular Coffee Hours. But if you’d like to start these up again, you’re more than welcome! Reach out to a 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. and we’ll help you organize one.

Submitting Issues

If you have a theme or functionality-related issue, please submit it to https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/.

If you have ideas for Edit Flow functionality, please submit them to https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow/issues.

For issues relating to the content of lesson plans, tutorials or courses, please use Report Content Errors and Feedback to let us know.