Rade Jekić 7:36 pm on August 2, 2026
Tags: training

Training Team Update – August 2nd, 2026

Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

🧳 The Training Team is working on a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
🏫 Learn WordPress DACH team kicked off their first German-language course cohort – Starten mit WordPress. You can find more info in the German-language Slack at dewp.slack.com (#training channel).

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in July

We held 4 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
We held our third Training Team Office Hours meeting on July 26th and scheduled the next for August 22nd. You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/07/30/office-hours-meeting-recap-26th-july-2026/

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	47
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	27
👀 Translations ready to review	10

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	17
📖 Translated content	14
🖊️ Translation in progress	27
🪚 Workshops completed	1

Huge thanks to all contributors – whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, or helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌

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Rade Jekić 7:14 pm on July 5, 2026
Tags: training

Training Team Update – July 5th, 2026

Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

🧳 The Training Team started a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
🏫 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 Development Course Cohort – learning program focused on Block Theme Development started in April and ended on June 7th. We’re currently reflecting on the experience and gathering our thoughts, and we’ll share a more detailed report soon.
🏕️ The Training Team had two table leads at the 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. Europe 2026 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ event and hosted the online Contributor Day. You can find more info in this P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org post – WordCamp Europe 2026: Contributor Day Recap

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in June

We held 5 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
We held our third Training Team Office Hours meeting on June 27th and scheduled the next for July 26th. You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/06/28/office-hours-meeting-recap-27th-june-2026/

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	12
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	35
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	27
👀 Translations ready to review	8

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	17
📖 Translated content	42
🖊️ Translation in progress	12
🪚 Workshops completed	1

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Rade Jekić 6:17 pm on June 1, 2026
Tags: training

Training Team Update – June 1st, 2026

Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

🧳 The Training Team started a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
🏫 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 Development Course Cohort – learning program focused on Block Theme Development started in April, and we are currently on Week 6 of the program. Learn more about this hands-on course, and feel free to leave comments or suggestions in our Slack channel or in this GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3381
🏕️ Workshops are live again: our colleague @devmuhib hosted a workshop, the first in the series about working with the Training Team Handbook
- How to Translate Learn WordPress Content Using the New Handbook

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in May

We held 4 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
We held our second Training Team Office Hours meeting on May 23rd, and scheduled the next for June 27th. You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/05/25/office-hours-meeting-recap-23rd-may-2026/

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	10
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	32
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	27
👀 Translations ready to review	8

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	24
📖 Translated content	30
🖊️ Translation in progress	8
🪚 Workshops completed	1

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Muhibul Haque 10:46 am on June 29, 2025
Tags: training

Training Team Update – June 29, 2025

Hello, Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished this month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from Training Team!

🏕️ 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. Europe 2025: Many of our members participated in 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/, online and in-person! Read the WordCamp Europe 2025 : Contributor Day Recap.
📣 Second Training Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. Deputy: We’re excited to announce that Rade Jekić has officially joined the Training Team as our second Deputy Team Rep!
🧭 The Guide Program is now fully active, with all mentees successfully paired with their guides. Some mentees have also started making active contributions to the Training Team.
🖼️ Thumbnail replacement and update project: We’ve made significant progress on the thumbnail generator project, with most thumbnails successfully updated. However, a few content thumbnails still use outdated designs or don’t comply with our thumbnail generator guidelines. We are working on these thumbnails and it’s an on going process.

⚒️ Training Team Activities in June Overview

We hosted 4 team meetings, 4 coffee hours, and 2 workshops from the Training Team. Weekly meetings were facilitated by team reps, coffee hours by Training Team contributors, and workshops were organized by both contributors and Training Team members. You can read the recap notes on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	7
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	27
👀 Translations ready to review	5

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	7
📖 Translated content	9
🖊️ Translation in progress	27
💻 Online Workshops	2

Huge thanks to all contributors—whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌

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#training

Laura Adamonis 11:20 pm on September 25, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training team update – September 2024

The Training Team is using these updates to report on how the team is doing with its different projects. For a detailed list of new content recently published on Learn WordPress, see the latest edition of the Learn WordPress Newsletter: LINK.

Content Creation on Learn WordPress

Learning Pathways

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – Published! See here
- Intermediate User – Published! See here
- Expert User – 17 of 20 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – Published! See here
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – Published! See here
Designer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Designer – 0 of 24 lessons completed

Other Projects and News

Learn GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-08-01 to 2024-08-31
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 10 (-64)
Issues closed: 16 (-42)
Issues open: 464 (+35)
Pull requests created: 7 (-10)
Pull requests closed: 10 (-7)
Pull requests open: 16 (-4)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 8 (+8)
Issue authors: 21 (+2)
PR submitters: 4 (+3)

Of these, 3 Git authors,7 issue authors, and 1 PR submitter made their first contribution last month 🎉

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Destiny Kanno 12:00 am on July 1, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training Team Update – July 2024

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Relaunching Learn WordPress with a new information architecture and design, with content focused on specific learning pathways, is the biggest goal and project for the Training Team in 2024. Come follow Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress to stay up-to-date with the progress of this work.

Content Creation Progress

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – Published! See here
- Intermediate User – 36 of 37 lessons completed
- Expert User – 0 of 24 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – Published! See here
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – 14 of 34 lessons completed

Other Projects and News

The Training Team has a new interim co-rep, @digitalchild— see more about this in Meet 2024 Interim Co-Rep: Jamie Madden.
We are looking to move our Online Workshops to GatherPress. You can learn more about how to help the Training Team test GatherPress in this post.
As the Learn WordPress redesign is underway, we are working toward updating the thumbnails of our content to the new design. You can learn more about that in our Thumbnail Creation Project thread.
The second Learn WordPress Course Cohort comes to an end this month, and we will be reporting on the results of this session in the coming month.
We had a Proposal on what to do with Learn WordPress’ Content Maintenance Process, and are working on a project plan to tackle this work.

Learn GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-06-01 – 2024-06-28
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 61 (+5)
Issues closed: 87 (-5)
Issues open: 483 (-25)
Pull requests created: 17 (+7)
Pull requests closed: 15 (+3)
Pull requests open: 19 (+1)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 7 (+2)
Issue authors: 4 (-18)
PR submitters: 4 (+2)

Of these, 2 Git authors,11 issue authors, and 1 PR submitter made their first contribution last month 🎉

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Laura Adamonis 4:05 pm on June 4, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training Team Update – June 2024

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – 25 of 25 lessons completed
- Intermediate User – 31 of 40 lessons completed
- Expert User – 0 of 24 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – 53 of 57 lessons completed
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – 0 of 34 lessons completed

Other Projects and News

Get to Know the Training Team’s Guide Program If you have been contributing to the training team for six months or more and would be interested in being a guide.
Check out May’s Contributor Spotlight: Jamie Madden.

Learn GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-05-01 – 2024-05-30
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 56 (+6)
Issues closed: 92 (+60)
Issues open: 508 (-4)
Pull requests created: 10 (+4)
Pull requests closed: 12 (+10)
Pull requests open: 18 (-2)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 5 (0)
Issue authors: 22 (+7)
PR submitters: 2 (-2)

Of these, 0 Git authors, 8 issue authors, and 0 PR submitter made their first contribution last month 🎉

#learnwp, #training

Kaito Hanamori 5:19 am on May 3, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training Team Update – May 2024

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – 24 of 25 lessons completed
- Intermediate User – 13 of 40 lessons completed
- Expert User – 0 of 24 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – 36 of 57 lessons completed
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – 0 of 34 lessons completed

Other Projects and News

The team will be conducting its second Learn WordPress Course Cohort from May 9 – June 20. The roughly 40 folks on the waiting list from last year have been invited to join.
Discussions are happening around a light Learn/Lessons visual refresh as part of the site redesign.
We’re once again brainstorming ideas for WordCamp Europe 2024.
Check out April’s Contributor Spotlight: Cynthia Norman.

Learn GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-04-01 – 2024-04-30
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 50 (-1)
Issues closed: 32 (-49)
Issues open: 532 (+22)
Pull requests created: 6 (+2)
Pull requests closed: 2 (-2)
Pull requests open: 20 (+7)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 5 (+1)
Issue authors: 15 (+12)
PR submitters: 4 (+3)

Of these, 1 Git authors, 6 issue authors, and 0 PR submitter made their first contribution last month 🎉

#learnwp, #training

Destiny Kanno 3:12 am on April 3, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training Team Update – March 2024

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – 25 of 25 lessons completed 🎉
- Intermediate User – 17 of 40 lessons completed
- Expert User – 0 of 24 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – 24 of 63 lessons completed
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – 0 of 34 lessons completed

Other Projects and News

The team has decided to move forward with testing Polylang and TranslatePress for our multilingual needs on Learn.
We’re hoping to help folks Speak at a WordCamp or Meetup About the Training Team and Learn WordPress
We had a very successful 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ at 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, and you can read all about it in our WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day Recap
Check out our March Contributor Spotlight on Oneal Rosero

Learn GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-03-01 – 2024-03-31
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 51 (-13)
Issues closed: 81 (+6)
Issues open: 510 (+38)
Pull requests created: 4 (-3)
Pull requests closed: 4 (-1)
Pull requests open: 13 (-/+)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 4 (-1)
Issue authors: 3 (-21)
PR submitters: 1 (+1)

Of these, 0 Git authors, 6 issue authors, and 1 PR submitter made their first contribution in March 2024 🎉

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Laura Adamonis 3:04 am on March 4, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 20 ), training

Training Team Update – February 2024

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

User Learning Pathways
- Beginner User – 22 of 25 lessons completed
- Intermediate User – 20 of 44 lessons completed
- Expert User – 0 of 24 lessons completed
Developer Learning Pathways
- Beginner Developer – 15 of 63 lessons completed
- Intermediate Plugin Developer – 0 of 38 lessons completed
- Intermediate Theme Developer – 0 of 34 lessons completed

Other Projects

The team is currently gathering a list of requirements for #2231 Testing translation plugins for learn.wordpress.org, and we invite folks to share their input directly on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue.
Looking for a group of folks to help outline a contributor journey learning pathways?
Training Team Contributor Day Online Session
WordPress 6.5 release workshops
- What’s New in WordPress 6.5?

Learn GitHub Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-02-01 – 2024-02-31
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

Issues created: 64 (+8)
Issues closed: 75 (+11)
Issues open: 475 (-2)
Pull requests created: 7 (+1)
Pull requests closed: 5 (-3)
Pull requests open: 13 (-2)

Active Members

GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/ authors: 5 (-2)
Issue authors: 24 (+4)
PR submitters: 0 (+0)

Of these, 11 Git author, 2 issue authors, and 0 PR submitter made their first contribution in February 2024 🎉

#learnwp, #training

📌 Highlights

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in July

📋 Project Status

📋 Project Update

📌 Highlights

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in June

📋 Project Status

📋 Project Update

📌 Highlights

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in May

📋 Project Status

📋 Project Update

📌 Highlights

⚒️ Training Team Activities in June Overview

📋 Project Status

📋 Project Update

Content Creation on Learn WordPress

Learning Pathways

Other Projects and News

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects and News

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects and News

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects and News

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects and News

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects

Learn GitHub Repository Status

Issues and Pull Requests

Active Members

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