General announcements

The plan is to launch HelpHub tomorrow, Friday November 30th. This has a slight impact on the support team, as it means the first page you are presented with when you look for support is HelpHub, instead of the list of forums that exist as of right now. This is to encourage self-help first, but it links to a proper list of forums as well for those who feel they didn’t find what they need. The original list of forums still exists as well, and can be found at https://wordpress.org/support/forums and looks like it does today.

The next volunteer orientation has now been scheduled, the details and times are available at 
https://make.wordpress.org/support/2018/11/new-volunteer-orientation-for-wp-support-contributors-dec-9/

In preparation of WordPress 5.0, we’ve now started working on the changes to the Master List that we put out with each release, the collaboration of which is taking place at https://make.wordpress.org/support/2018/11/support-master-list-for-wordpress-5-0/

During the Contributor Day at WordCamp US this year, we’ve been asked to join in discuss a proposal for making Lighthouse more WordPress aware. You can read more about that at https://make.wordpress.org/support/2018/11/wordpress-localized-lighthouse-audits/

Checking in with international liaisons

Our fantastic representatives from the Swedish, Serbian, Dutch, Urdu, Russian and German communities took part in todays chat and provided insights from their sides of things.

Open floor

The not a bug section of our Master List should have a section about how the new editing experience behaves, and questions that may come up from it, see the Google Docs sheet at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XaARXrJBF9CQ0qNHHbDxvvlZTtyrG7b9scjuFFJll7E/edit#heading=h.vj8fogmps05y for more details.

A quick reminder that we don’t know when WordPress 5.0 lands, and should it be during your holiday periods, there are no obligations to stop by and help users, enjoy your time off!

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

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General announcements

We’ll be putting a post for the 5.0 Master List to be prepared on make/support some time this week.
It will for the most part be much the same format as previous releases, but with a heavier focus on checking for JavaScript errors and conflicts due to the nature of the new editors dependence on it.

In other news, we will be holding another support volunteer orientation during the WCUS contributor day. Like previous iterations it will be pushed through slack, as link sharing and similar is easier that way. A make/support post will be filed for this as well, and non-attendees are also welcome to take part.

Checking in with international liaisons

Participants from Serbia, Russia, Sweden and Germany took part in this weeks slightly quiet chat (holidays!)

Open floor

We had some discussions about ways to encourage users to provide more initial information when creating support requests, and will be looking into improving the “yellow box of steps” that precedes the post boxes on the forums.

A quick summary on the WordPress 5.0 progression was also provided, as we’ve passed the Release Candidate deadline, we are not currently looking at a November 27th release. More details to follow as the release lead team publish it on make/core.

And finally, a reminder that it’s OK to not know everything, feel free to skip questions that you’re uncomfortable with/don’t feel like you know enough about. If you’re not happy answering a question, you are in no way required to take it on!

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

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