Docs Team Update for Feb. 20, 2014

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

1. DevHub: Progress continues. The code reference theme work is done for now. @Rarst was given commit access to the parser repo, and will be making changes needed for parsing the inline docs. Work has started on resolving issues for the handbook theme.

2. Docs Issue Tracker: @samuelsidler said we should have an initial version soon.

3. AH-O2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.: Per @jazzs3quence, @brainfork will be working on redoing the help overviews due to a display issue. Work continues on adding tooltips. Version 0.6 was released Thursday – please test and provide feedback to the team. (2/17/2014 team meeting summary)

4. Docs Project Landing Pages: Landing pages were created for the Codex, DevHub, and Handbooks projects. Each landing page will be populated by their respective teams.

5. Handbooks: @hanni posted the detailed plans for the Handbooks project this week. These plans include a weekly IRC chat for the Handbooks team, a new editor for the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Developer Handbook, and new contributors for both handbooks.

More contributors are needed for the Theme Developer Handbook, so if you are interested in helping, contact @sewmyheadon or @hanni via IRC, attend the weekly meeting on Wednesdays, or leave a comment on this post.

You can read the chat logs here.

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