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  • Jose 12:37 pm on March 10, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Theme Review Update for March 10, 2014 

    Currently

    • 27 new tickets are waiting for review.
      • 1 tickets are older than 2 weeks
      • 3 tickets are older than 1 week
      • 11 tickets are older than 3 days
    • 61 tickets are assigned.
      • 24 tickets are older than 2 weeks
      • 48 tickets are older than 1 week
      • 59 tickets are older than 3 days

    In the past 7 days

    • 157 tickets were opened
    • 121 tickets were closed:
      • 92 tickets were made live.
        • 13 new Themes were made live.
        • 79 Theme updates were made live.
        • 55 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 27 tickets were not-approved.
      • 2 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
     

  • Kim Parsell 12:52 pm on March 8, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Docs Team Update for March 6, 2014 

    The following is a summary of the topics that were discussed during our weekly Docs chat.

    1. DevHub: Work continues on fixing parser-related issues. @samuelsidler said volunteers are needed to help with the handbook theme. If you have HTML/CSS/theming skills and would like to help with the theme, leave a comment on this post, or come to the weekly IRC chat on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC.

    2. Docs Issue Tracker: @otto42 added the ability to create issue types for the tracker. @siobhan suggested that we keep the terms list to a reasonable amount. The team will discuss what terms are needed.

    3. AH-O2: @jazzs3quence presented the plugin proposal at the Featured Plugins Chat on 3/4/2014, and said there were some concerns voiced about the implementation they used. Their next weekly meeting will include reviewing the plugin’s goals, and brainstorming new ideas. If you would like to be part of this effort, please attend the meeting on 3/10/2014 at 18:30 UTC. (3/3/2014 team meeting summary)

    4. Handbooks: Progress is being made on both handbooks. The Plugin Developer Handbook focus is on creating the content for sections 5, 6, and 12. @philiparthurmoore is working on the outline for the Theme Developer Handbook intro. He and @sewmyheadon talked on Wednesday, and @philiparthurmoore will be working on the intro this weekend.

    5. Docs Sprints: The Seattle Docs sprint last weekend went very well, with 13 people contributing. @sewmyheadon wrote a short recap of the sprint, along with the information for the April sprint.

    6. Inline Docs: @DrewAPicture said the hook docs initiative surpassed the 80% complete mark this week, with less than 30 files to complete. If you would like to help, you can claim one of the remaining files.

    7. Codex: The 3.9 version page has been created, and some information has already been added. The page is marked as a stub – volunteers are invited to contribute by updating the page. Contact @DrewAPicture if you have any questions.

    You can read the chat logs here.

     

  • Jen Mylo 1:56 am on March 8, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Community Team Update: March 7, 2014 

    Amy has gotten busy with work, so I’ll be handling our team updates for the time being. Since it’s been awhile for our team posting something, this week I’ll describe the stuff we’re working on, and go back to the more succinct bulleted lists next week.

    tl;dr: Our team is growing in active members and projects, and we’re excited about it.

    Meetups

    There are around 70 groups on the chapter account now, with more due to roll-in at the next quarterly mark at the beginning of next month. We sent out surveys for organizers and members of all meetups in the program and will be posting the results of that next week. Some of the bigger meetups have joined lately (like Austin) and/or will be in the next roll-in (like Boston), so we should have some good momentum as we move into spring. Andy McIlwain from the Toronto community has volunteered to help with the program and started getting trained on administration this week.
    The community team focuses on meetups in the team chat on the 1st Thursday of each month. 

    Mentorships/Diversity

    • We were accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. The application period opens soon, and at that point we’ll be pretty busy for about 2 weeks fielding questions, reviewing applications, handling irc chats, etc. @samuelsidler has volunteered to be the backup admin and help me wrangle it this year. Thanks, Sam!
    • Still have a few contrib groups to talk to about the in-house mentorship program, but hoping to kick off the one-month ‘contributor onramp’ set within the coming month. In the community team we’ll be doing ours in the areas of meetup organizing, WC organizing, and wordpress.tv moderation.
    • We opted not to participate in OPW this year, agreeing that getting our in-house programs in order was a higher priority and would allow us to help more people in the long run. We hope to do OPW again in the future.
    • There was a workshop in Vancouver for women to brainstorm topics and/or get comfortable with public speaking for WordCamps/WordPress meetups. Similar workshops are being planned for Seattle and Portland this month, after which we hope to post a standard workshop curriculum (to be used by anyone/everyone, not just for diversity outreach).
    • WordPress will be a sponsor for the Tech Mix It Up diversity mixer at Philly Tech Week.
    • Work continues slow but steady on workshop curriculums. The one for child theming as about done.
    • Going to work with Girl Develop It on standardizing their WP curriculums (via team member Tracy Levesque, who’s also a GDI instructor).

    The community team focuses on mentorships/diversity in the team chat on the 2nd Thursday of each month. 

    WordCamps

    There’s a WordCamp in Dayton this weekend, followed by Atlanta and Mumbai next weekend. At the end of April we start “WordCamp Season,” when there are generally multiple WordCamps every weekend. In addition to the 29 WCs already on the schedule, there are a bunch more trying to nail down their dates. Full schedule at http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/
    The community team focuses on meetups in the team chat on the 3rd Thursday of each month. 

    Contributor Recognition/Site Stuff

    We are working on an updated version of profiles.wordpress.org. In addition to technical changes (starting from last year’s GSoC project by Mert), there’ll be some design updating as  well as a badge system to recognize contributors of all types. Hoping/planning to launch v1 next week and then do 2-week iterations moving forward to keep improving it.

    Hey Team Reps: Will want to talk with you about how to tell who’s an active member on your teams so the stuff that’s manual now could hopefully be automated in the future.

    The community team focuses on contributor recognition & site stuff in the team chat on the 4th Thursday of each month. 

     

  • Boone Gorges 10:42 pm on March 6, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Plugins Update, March 6, 2014 

    Repository stats for the last week:

    Requested: 222
    Rejected : 30
    Closed: 20
    Approved: 170

    Currently in the request queue: 52 (6 older than one week; 17 with no replies)

    4910 commits to the repository (865387-870297)

    Plugins support email stats for the last week:

    Currently open: 13 (4 with no activity in the last week)

     

  • Jan Dembowski 7:25 pm on March 6, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Support Team Update for March 6th 

    Today’s support #wordpress-sfd meetup was very light as there was no pre-defined agenda.

    The topics discussed ranged from

    You can read the transcript of today’s meetup via this link.

     

  • Aaron Douglas 10:50 pm on March 3, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Mobile Group Update for March 3, 2014 

    WPiOS – 4.0 code freeze on Saturday, March 1st. QA through 3/13 and then submitting to Apple for review.
    WPAndroid – 2.6.2 & 2.6.3 released last week – SSL and other various bug fixes. 2.7 work continues with no real tent pole features but a mix of small improvements.
    GSOC – Team members have been pinged by a couple students regarding project ideas for native mobile. Directing students to use #wordpress-gsoc and #wordpress-mobile for hashing through ideas.

    devchat summary

     

  • Jose 12:34 pm on March 3, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Theme Review Update for March 3, 2014 

    Currently:

    • 29 new tickets are waiting for review.
      • 1 tickets are older than 2 weeks
      • 2 tickets are older than 1 week
      • 11 tickets are older than 3 days
    • 66 tickets are assigned.
      • 21 tickets are older than 2 weeks
      • 44 tickets are older than 1 week
      • 64 tickets are older than 3 days

    In the past 7 days

    • 137 tickets were opened
    • 170 tickets were closed:
      • 142 tickets were made live.
        • 31 new Themes were made live.
        • 111 Theme updates were made live.
        • 3 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 28 tickets were not-approved.
      • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
     

  • Kim Parsell 6:50 am on March 1, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Docs Team Update for Feb. 27, 2014 

    The following is a summary of the topics that were discussed during our weekly Docs chat.

    1. DevHub: Work continues on fixing parser-related issues, as well as resolving issues with the handbook theme. (2/26/2014 team meeting summary)

    2. Docs Issue Tracker: @otto42 unveiled the alpha version of the issue tracker earlier this week. The Docs team is providing feedback, and work continues to implement those suggestions.

    3. AH-O2: Minor UI fixes were merged in this past week, and work continues on refactoring the overview. Current needs are writers to assist with tooltip creation, and people to test the plugin, and provide feedback. (2/24/2014 team meeting summary)

    4. Docs Project Landing Pages: The landing pages are now complete for all four projects: Codex, Devhub, Handbooks, and Inline Docs.

    5. Handbooks: Good progress was made on the Plugin Developer Handbook. The new outline is finished, and the existing content has been migrated into the new structure. Work continues on the Theme Developer Handbook, with the current focus being the new intro and the new outline. (2/27/2014 team meeting summary)

    6. Contributor Events: There are two contributor events happening this weekend: the Monthly Docs Sprint at the Seattle WordPress Meetup group, and the WP Contributor Day in the UK. Both events are on Saturday, March 1. If you aren’t located near either event, you can join in via the #wordpress-sfd IRC channel, and participate virtually.

    You can read the chat logs here.

     

  • Boone Gorges 6:09 pm on February 28, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Plugins Update, February 28, 2014 

    Sorry for the late post – I posted last night, but it seems to have disappeared into the ether.

    Repository stats for the last week:

    Requested: 210
    Rejected : 27
    Closed: 28
    Approved: 184

    Currently in the request queue: 49 (2 older than one week; 26 with no replies)

    5253 commits to the repository (861281-866534)

    Plugins support email stats for the last week:

    Currently open: 6 (5 with no activity in the last week)

     

  • Jan Dembowski 6:51 pm on February 27, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Support Team Update for February 27th 

    Here are the items discussed at today’s #wordpress-sfd support meetup.

    Code authors jumping straight to requesting admin access

    This is kind of a repeat item but except for asking authors to try intermediate steps I don’t see much to offer about this. It’s not quite like asking for FTP access but it’s close.

    Asking for access like that is not recommended and should be discouraged. The forums are a self-help resource and when the author just fixes the problem it doesn’t really help the community.

    It’s too much of a shortcut and just like FTP access if something breaks due to an author’s changes then the author is to blame.

    Status of doc-bot

    There was some discussion about where the doc-bot is being run from and features.

    For IRC support requests comments should be made to http://make.wordpress.org/support/irc-doc-bot/ in which @sivel will pinged.

    Semi-formal process for requesting forum custom member titles

    Occasionally there are official support representatives for a company, plugin or theme and those reps are not listed as a contributor. When that happens the authors can ask that those other accounts gets a custom title such as “ACME Support Rep”.

    But there’s not really a process to request that title. There was a make/support blog posting but that got really spammy quickly and had to be shut down.

    There was some discussion in the meetup about how that could be accomplished.

    1. A sticky forum post with posted requirements - That would get even more spammy and that idea was discarded.
    2. A PollDaddy form - That may work but would need some more fleshing out.
    3. Make it part of the plugins and themes bbPress admin portion - Difficult to do. Really difficult; they’re seperate bbPress installations and the integration work is a lot. If it were something simple like that it would have been done already.

    At the moment when a moderator identifies support staff, they confirm that they’re legitimate and offer to customize their forum member titles. But it’s more of a shoulder tap thing and not something that has a process for.

    If there’s an interest in making a process for those requests I’ll create a new post at make/support to get more ideas.

    You can read the transcript of today’s meet up via this link.

     

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