Plugin Review Team: 27 Feb 2023

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 177
  • Plugins rejected : 4
  • Plugins closed : 12
  • Plugins approved : 17

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 656
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 473
  • → (2023-02-20 – 2023-02-27) : 133
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 132
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 524

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 319
  • New Conversations: 175
  • Customers: 284
  • Conversations per Day: 35
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 411
  • Replies Sent: 411
  • Emails Created: 80

#plugins

Core Performance Team Update – February 28, 2023

Performance Lab

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month.

February’s release 2.0.0 included bumping the minimum WordPress version to 6.1, adding an indicator to the admin bar when using SQLite, adding a file header to object-cache drop-in, fixing a PHP warning in the WebP Uploads module, and various other infrastructure improvements. 

An approach for creating standalone plugins and unbundling the Performance Lab 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 has been greenlit. The necessary work has already been defined (see overview issue) and engineering has commenced. 

Proposals and Discussion

Performance Team chats are held weekly on Tuesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

The WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Performance Team roadmap for 2023 was recently published along with an announcement post. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this.

The image fetchpriority attribute is now standardized, unblocking the team for working on a proposal for automatically adding the attribute to the LCP image in WordPress core, based on the existing Performance Lab module.

Work in the measurement focus continues on the infrastructure of the Plugin Checker, progress can be seen in this GitHub repo. Separately, a script for benchmarking Web Vitals of any website in the lab is also being worked on (see pull request). The team has also started focusing on a path for easier profiling WordPress performance: An initial PR has been created to add support for profiling with XHProf to the official `wp-env` WordPress package.

Tickets

In addition to Performance Lab, the Performance Team also works on performance-related tickets in core and holds a monthly Bug Bash on the first Wednesday of every month; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

WordPress 6.2 contains many performance improvements, for example caching was added to the wp_get_global_settings() function in [55155], and the WordPress core blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme bug with lazy-loading the LCP image was fixed in [55318]. It’s worth highlighting that WordPress core performance overall has notably improved with 6.2, both server-side and client-side (see lab data).

The automated performance testing CI workflow was proposed for WordPress core, and a pull request has also been opened. This workflow will be very valuable for monitoring core performance automatically in the long term and thus reducing the manual performance measurement workload on contributors.

Themes team update February 28, 2023

i) 🎟 Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 10 new ticket is waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 5 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 51 tickets are assigned.
    • 5 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 12 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 37 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 51 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 1 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 450 tickets were opened
  • 468 tickets were closed
    • 457 tickets were made live.
      • 31 new Themes were made live.
      • 426 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 10 tickets were not-approved.
    • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 3 (@kafleg@acosmin, @bijayyadav)

ii) 💻 BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 13 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 238 Block Themes in the themes repository.
  • 6 Block themes live in the past 7 days.

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 7Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 5Emails Created 0
Resolved 5Resolved on First Reply 80%

iv) ✅ Extras

  • Create Block Theme 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 now has 1000+ active installs. There are 37 active issues and 4 Pull requests in GitHub.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Test Team Update: 27 February 2023

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

📊 Current totals (since 20 February 2023):

  • Need testing info: 16 (change: +1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1824 (change: -2)
  • Need patch testing: 193 (change: -3)
  • Need unit tests: 110 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 156 (change: -6)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 3 (change: +3)
  • Need reproduce issue: 6 (change: -8)
  • Need patch testing: 11 (change: +6)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 13 (change: +9)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1 (change: -1)
  • Need patch testing: 5 (change: +3)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 25 (change: +10)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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#test

Documentation Team Update – February 27, 2023

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

Past 7 days

9 Issues closed:

8 Issues open:

25 Unresolved conversations:

11 active projects:

#docs

Plugin Review Team: 21 February 2023

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 160
  • Plugins rejected : 12
  • Plugins closed : 13
    •   Author Request: 11
    •   Unused: 2
  • Plugins approved : 43

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 584
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 431
  • → (2023-02-14 – 2023-02-21) : 93
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 79
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 505

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 621
  • New Conversations: 301
  • Customers: 431
  • Conversations per Day: 69
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Messages Received: 526
  • Replies Sent: 575
  • Emails Created: 184

#plugins

Support Team Meeting Updates for February 23rd

Items covered and discussed in the Support Team Meeting include:

  • Two-factor authentication
  • WordPress 6.2 betas
  • Support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. bug scrubs
  • Lowering barrier for taking on responsiblities in the team
  • Updated FAQ
  • Checking in with international liaisons

For the full experience of a support meeting summary, including calls for comment and good tunes, please read the full make/support meeting summary post.

#support

Test Team Update: 20 February 2023

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

📊 Current totals (since 6 February 2023):

  • Need testing info: 15 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1826 (change: +15)
  • Need patch testing: 196 (change: -4)
  • Need unit tests: 110 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 162 (change: -19)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -3)
  • Need reproduce issue: 18 (change: +10)
  • Need patch testing: 14 (change: -7)
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -4)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 15 (change: +2)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 2 (change: +2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 2 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 20 (change: -1)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Support Team Meeting Updates for February 16th

Items covered and discussed in the Support Team Meeting include:

  • Topic reports by users
  • Support component bug scrub
  • 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. Asia
  • Checking in with international liaisons

For the full experience of a support meeting summary, including calls for comment and good tunes, please read the full make/support meeting summary post.

#support

Support Team Meeting Updates for February 9th

Items covered and discussed in the Support Team Meeting include:

  • WordPress 6.2 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.
  • Community Summit attendee applications
  • Evolving international liaison check-ins
  • Checking in with international liaisons

For the full experience of a support meeting summary, including calls for comment and good tunes, please read the full make/support meeting summary post.

#support