How to create the Training Team Update

The Training Team uses these updates to report on how the team is doing with its different projects to the WordPress community. The updates are published in the Make WordPress Team Updates. Example Update

The team reps are responsible for creating the update
post on a rotating schedule. 

• Create at the end of each month.
• Publish by the 5th of the next month. 

• As 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. you will have access to the Team Updates dashboard.
• Open Dashboard>Posts
• Click on plus (+) in uppper left toolbar.
• Click on Patterns.
• Search Training team updates.
• Click on the pattern to add to the post.  

Go through each line and update text to current information. 

• Update title: Training Team Update- {MONTH} {YEAR}
• Add link: Add the link to the top paragraph in the pattern for the Learn WordPress Newsletter.

Content Creation on Learn WordPress section

• Update current project
  • Write an overview of the project with links to posts with project information. 

• Other Projects and News
  • A list of projects and news with a short overview of each with links to any documentation. 

• Learn 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/ Repository Status
  • The data for this section is pulled from Cauldron. Team reps have access within their pinned documents 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/. team rep channel. 
  • Follow directions Collecting GitHub stats for team updates
  • Add in parentheses ( ) the difference between this month’s and last month’s value.

To find the data for the following items. Click on the tab for Activity and in the
dropdown click on Overview. 

• Issues and Pull Requests
  • Issues created: # ()
  • Issues closed: # ()
  • Issues open: # ()
  • Pull requests created: # ()
  • Pull requests closed: # ()
  • Pull requests open: # ()

To find the data for the following items. Click on the tab for Community and in the
dropdown click on Overview. View #Active Members section of graph.

• Active Members
  • GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. authors: # ()
  • Issue authors: # ()
  • PR submitters: # ()