KafleG 3:22 am on July 2, 2024
Tags: themes ( 448 ), weekly updates ( 125 )

Themes team update July 02, 2024

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

0 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
- 0 tickets are older than 3 days
71 tickets are assigned.
- 6 tickets is older than 4 weeks
- 17 ticket is older than 2 weeks
- 33 tickets are older than 1 week
- 49 tickets are older than 3 days
1 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

872 tickets were opened
887 tickets were closed
- 873 tickets were made live.
  - 56 new Themes were made live.
  - 817 Theme updates were made live.
  - 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 14 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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

Number of reviewers: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @vowelweb, @dballari, @fahimmurshed, @jamieblomerus )

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

17 Block themes are currently being reviewed
23 Block theme has been live in the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 12	Messages Received 16
Replies Sent 16	Emails Created 0
Resolved 16	Resolved on First Reply 75%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 48 active issues and 2 Pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 6 PRs and 38 issues.
Twenty Twenty-Five GitHub repository created.
A few themes are suspended because of security reasons.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Milana Cap 10:28 am on July 1, 2024
Tags: docs ( 165 )

Documentation Team Update – July 1, 2024

The Documentation team meeting schedule:

First Tuesday in a month – Discussion meeting 2-3 PM UTC
Second Tuesday in a month – Monthly planning meeting 2-3 PM UTC
Third Tuesday in a month – Discussion meeting 2-3 PM UTC
Fourth Tuesday in a month – Online 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/. 1-4 PM UTC
Fifth Tuesday in a month – Monthly planning or Discussion meeting, as needed 2-3 PM UTC

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

To do: 358
In progress: 83
Review: 111
Ready to publish: 2
Done: 310

By version:

6.6: 5
6.5: 16
6.4: 115
6.3: 27
6.2: 20
6.1: 1

By project:

Past week

0 pull requests merged.

0 issues closed.

4 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Destiny Kanno 12:00 am on July 1, 2024
Tags: LearnWP ( 18 ), training ( 65 )

Training Team Update – July 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 newsletter: Learn WordPress Newsletter – June 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 be 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 🎉

#learnwp, #training

Tammie Lister 6:11 pm on June 28, 2024
Tags: core-themes ( 3 ), default-themes ( 3 )

Default Theme Task Force update – June 28, 2024

This is the update posted once a month monitoring efforts around the default theme taskforce, focusing on initially reducing the ticket queue.

Current state

Tickets for next minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality.: 0 (change: 0)
Tickets in the milestone for the next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality.: 1 (change: -12)
Open tickets: 258 (change -21)
Open tickets with patches: 117 (change -24)

This month

Closed tickets: 17 (change -18) (won’t fix, duplicates)
Commits: 20 (change +9)
New tickets: 11 (change 0)

Highlights

WCEU contribution day.

Props and thanks to every single contributor that made it possible to move themes along this month.

#default-themes

#core-themes

Paco Marchante 7:02 pm on June 17, 2024
Tags: plugins ( 512 )

Plugin Review Team: 17 June 2024

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 : 150
Plugins rejected : 0
Plugins closed : 28
Plugins approved : 7

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2220
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 2038
- (2024-06-10 – 2024-06-16) : 141
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 534
- (pending; replied to)* : 1686
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 1433
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 233
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 20

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 447
New Conversations: 128
Customers: 375
Conversations per Day: 55
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 327
Replies Sent: 310
Emails Created: 48

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Francisco Torres 1:28 pm on June 10, 2024
Tags: plugins ( 512 )

Plugin Review Team: 10 June 2024

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 : 125
Plugins rejected : 6
Plugins closed : 42
Plugins approved : 52

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2077
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 1909
- (2024-06-03 – 2024-06-09) : 129
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 412
- (pending; replied to)* : 1665
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 1508
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 135
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 22

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 862
New Conversations: 293
Customers: 675
Conversations per Day: 107
Busiest Day: Tuesday
Messages Received: 483
Replies Sent: 834
Emails Created: 209

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Paco Marchante 9:53 pm on February 12, 2024
Tags: plugins ( 512 )

Plugin Review Team: 12 February 2024

Reporting period: 2024-02-05 – 2024-02-11

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 : 110
Plugins rejected : 5
Plugins closed : 28
Plugins approved : 65

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2630
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 2453
- (2024-02-05 – 2024-02-11) : 123
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 306
- (pending; replied to)* : 2324
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 1975
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 337
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 12

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 595
New Conversations: 166
Customers: 563
Conversations per Day: 74
Busiest Day: Saturday
Messages Received: 473
Replies Sent: 466
Emails Created: 86

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Milana Cap 10:44 am on February 12, 2024
Tags: docs ( 165 )

Documentation Team Update – February 12, 2024

The Documentation team meeting schedule:

First Tuesday in a month – meeting 2-3 PM UTC
Second Tuesday in a month – issues triage 2-3 PM UTC
Third Tuesday in a month – meeting 2-3 PM UTC
Fourth Tuesday in a month – 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/. 1-4 PM UTC
Fifth Tuesday in a month – not defined 2-3 PM UTC (probably mixed meeting and triage)

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

To do: 345
In progress: 78
Review: 67
Ready to publish: 1
Done: 212

By version:

6.5: 1
6.4: 131
6.3: 33
6.2: 26
6.1: 5
6.0: 1

By project:

Past week

1 pull request merged.

5 issues closed.

5 issues created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Paco Marchante 10:28 pm on January 29, 2024
Tags: plugins ( 512 )

Plugin Review Team: 29 January 2024

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 : 125
Plugins rejected : 7
Plugins closed : 25
Plugins approved : 47

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2543
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 2372
- (2024-01-22 – 2024-01-28) : 132
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 217
- (pending; replied to)* : 2326
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 1930
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 388
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 8

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 801
New Conversations: 378
Customers: 767
Conversations per Day: 100
Busiest Day: Tuesday
Messages Received: 519
Replies Sent: 653
Emails Created: 313

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Tonya Mork 6:34 pm on January 29, 2024
Tags: core ( 57 ), core-editor ( 14 )

Core Team Update – January 29, 2024

Overview

2024 Team Rep nominations: no accepted or new nominations.
DevChat meeting held on Jan 24th (2nd week of the new format experiment).
- The agenda with post highlights and updates from next releases and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
- The summary.
New Contributors meeting held on Jan 24th.

Code Overview

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and svn):
- 51 commits (+14 from last week).
- 51 new tickets opened (-8 from last week).
- 86 tickets closed (+27 from last week).
- A Week in Core – January 29, 2024
  - 64 contributors.
  - 2 new contributors.
  - 12 committers committed.
Gutenberg:
- 156 commits to trunk (+46 from last week).
- 90 new issues opened (+18 from last week).
- 61 issues closed (+21 from last week).

Releases

Gutenberg releases:
- 🏁 17.6.0 RC2 released on Jan 25th.
- 🏁 17.6.0 RC1 released on Jan 24th.
- 🏁 17.5.2 released on Jan 24th.
- 🏁 17.5.1 released on Jan 22nd.
6.4 minor releases:
- Bug scrubs: none this week.
- 6.4.3:
  - 🏁 6.4.3 RC1 released on Jan 25th.
  - 0 open Trac tickets (-5 from last week).
  - 5 commits to Core’s 6.4 branch (-1 from last week).
  - 0 commits to Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (no change from last week).
6.5 major release is underway:
- Current development phase: Alpha.
- Bug scrubs: none this week.
- Core Trac:
  - 45 commits (+14 from last week).
  - 163 open tickets (-85 from last week):
    - 109 defects / bugs.
    - 54 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks.
  - 6 early tickets (-2 from last week).
- Gutenberg:
  - 0 commits to Gutenberg’s wp/6.5 branch (branch does not yet exist).
  - Editor tasks board:
    - 154 open tasks (+30 from last week).
    - 42 done tasks (+4 from last week).
    - 6 punted tasks (+3 from last week).

Highlights:

#core, #core-editor