The Health Check plugin (the tool used for providing support, both by our volunteers but also by theme and plugin authors) is preparing to release version 1.1.0, and as such the files are ready to be translated. If you are a polyglot we welcome you to help out with translations!
No new issues, that aren’t already known in some way, have been noticed.
We also see that with the exception of confusion about the comment checkbox not always being present, users aren’t having many issues with the new privacy tools.
The Italian, Serbian, Swedish, Brazilian, Russian, German and Spanish representatives let us know that things are looking good in the wider world!
The next batch of volunteer badges will be assigned when the ones responsible for it return from their break, until then just make sure to keep the volunteer spreadsheet up to date. (Are you an international representative and don’t know about it, please send a Direct Message to @clorith and he will get you sorted).
Image embeds are still only restricted to embeds from the CloudUp service, we will likely re-introduce support for imgur at some point as well.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
WordPress iOS and Android version 10.2 have been released for beta testing.
Sign up here to join the beta program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on Become a beta tester.
In the last two weeks the team has worked on:
At the first of the month, all plugins that were pending 6 months with no reply to a review were rejected. Also, plugins that had gone 12 months without completion were also rejected.
In addition, plugins that have never been used, and never had any code committee to SVN at all, are being cleaned up, causing the high number of closed. We’re down to 7000 plugins never used.
Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource on strategy and content for other WordPress teams — that means you.
For those who want to join the team, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. If you have any questions or feel lost (all of us do at some point), please feel free to ping any of us in Slack. We’re here to help guide and mentor you. We meet in Slack every Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time as a catch up on our tasks. However, anyone can chat in our Slack channel about anything at any time.
We use our weekly slack meeting to focus on updates to the tasks that currently exist in Trello.
We are excited about the upcoming Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe. Dwayne, Jen, Yvette and I will all be there to help assist and onboard new people with tasks.
The top two posts from last week continue to be the jargon glossary and the onboarding guide for Contributor Day. This reinforces our mission to be helpful to the community at large get involved. We are also excited that the case studies continue to be a good resource.
Marketing Blog Stats as of 6/1/18
If your team would like strategic advice or copywriting, please ping either me (@gidgey on Slack) or @mcdwayne. We’ll set up a Trello card and get to work.
No unexpected issues with the new release, that aren’t already tracked, have been noticed in our regular places this week.
We had people joining us from the Pakistani, Serbian, Russian, Brazilian, Italian, Swedish communities during this weeks gathering.
As always, we can’t give legal advise but we do see users be confused, especially when it comes to externally loaded assets (such as Google Fonts for example).
As WordPress core doesn’t use a CDN for regular assets, we can inform users of this. We do use it for one case though, emoji, and we can inform them of this exception and that there are plugins available to disable this behavior if they so desire.
Our general stance on GDPR topics is still to not offer any official advise on what users need to be compliant, because our volunteers shouldn’t be held accountable for anything that may relate to legal matters. The general information topic that was posted last week covers this and can be a good asset also for rosetta sites (or for translating if they so desire).
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource on strategy and content for other WordPress teams — that means you. We reiterate our mission each week so that everyone who is new to the team understands what our goals are.
For those who want to join the team, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. If you have any questions or feel lost (all of us do at some point), please feel free to ping any of us in Slack. We’re here to help guide and mentor you. We meet in Slack every Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
We use our weekly slack meeting to focus on updates to the tasks that currently exist in Trello.
The Create a Blog task is moving forward as the copy is approved and the wireframe has been assigned to the design team. It’s exciting to work on pages that will help WordPress.org.
We are excited about the upcoming Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe. Dwayne, Jen, Yvette and I will all be there to help assist and onboard new people with tasks.
The top two posts from last week are the jargon glossary and the onboarding guide for Contributor Day. This reinforces our mission to be helpful to the community at large get involved.
As always, if you have a task request please ping either me (@gidgey on Slack) or @mcdwayne. We’ll set up a Trello card and get to work.
