May 16th Support Team Meeting Summary

General announcements

WordPress 5.2.1 is likely looking at a release early next week (the week of May 20th), to address some of the more time critical items (and any other items that are already done and patched) for 5.2.0

WordPress 5.2.0

We’re not seeing any new trending issues that haven’t already been tracked this past week, smooth sailing is the best sailing!

Checking in with international liaisons

Representatives from the Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Indian, Urdu and Spanish communities took part in this weeks discussions, and we had some exciting input on the reception of 5.2!

Open floor

A custom page is being created to cover the various Site Health elements (WSOD protection, the health checker and such), which will ive under wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//support.

The site will feature custom design elements for user consumption, and be made available for rosetta site translations.

The Italian community have started a collaboration with the local polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. to translate the handbooks.

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Bristol will be having their Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. tomorrow (May 17th), remember to he kind and helpful as new users with little experience may show up throughout the day!

We’re also still hoping to plan a Support (Appreciation) Day, if you’re interested in taking the reins on this, please let us know in the comment section below, as we would love help with this.

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

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