General anouncements

The Health Check plugin is getting a visual overhaul with a new UI and UX. With this comes a noticeable amount of strings, both changes and new ones. In light of this there’s a ticket up for going through the various strings and states for them.

Once things are ready, we’ll also have the Accessibility Team look over it, this is especially important as parts of it are planned for inclusion in core.

WordPress 5.1

It’s release day! And unless something happens we will see WordPress 5.1 be released today.

As always, this means we will be following the proceedings in our Release Day Checklist, most importantly that we will keep channel banter to a minimum until over the weekend. This is done so that any issues that arise can be communicated clearly without being lost behind emoji and the likes.

A small set of users may be affected by a JS error in 5.1 as noted in #46280, the Hotfix Plugin has been updated to address this issue for now.

Checking in with international liaisons

Members of the Russian, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Urdu, Serbian, Brazilian and Greek communities were present for this weeks chat to let us know things are progressing well for them.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

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Checking in with international liaisons

We had representatives from our Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Russia, Urdu and Brazilian communities. We had some discussions about the upcoming 5.1 release, and the Update PHP information page.

Open floor

WPBot, the IRC utility bot for WordPress support, got an infrastructure update this week, and also got given some automated moderation tasks to handle ongoing spam in the IRC chat.

The idea of a support appreciation day was also mentioned, so as not to lose track of it, as this is something we would still like to get going.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

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Apologies for the tardiness, flu season was brutal, we’re back up and running now!

General announcements

Gutenberg 5.0 landed yesterday, and includes so many widgets as blocks! So if you’re excited about that, give it a spin, see how things are working and partake in improving on things that aren’t working as expected. Widgets as blocks are still experimental-sort of, after all.

Checking in with international liaisons

We had representation from Sweden, Italy, Netherlands and Russia during this weeks gathering.

Open floor

It’s hard to show appreciation for support volunteers, to help with this we’re looking at doing what many others have done, and having a special appreciation day, where we promote the giving of thanks to those that give of their own time. This will of course be an all year endeavor, but one day a year we’ll focus heavily on it to spread the word.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

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Apologies for the tardiness, flu season was brutal, we’re back up and running now!

General announcements

Please help test the new WordPress 5.1 betas, the next version will include notices for users running out of date PHP version (versions lower than 5.6 at first).

Checking in with international liaisons

Members of the Swedish, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Hindi, Urdu and Dutch communities were present and giving updates on how things are going for them this past week.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

#support