Meeting Notes for Tuesday 24th September 2019

Welcome to the Theme Review team.

We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory. The Theme Review Team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data and the Theme Sniffer 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.

Interested in joining the Theme Reviewers team?

Great! To find out more just visit the Join The Team page.

Want to know more? There is a more information in the Theme Review Team’s Handbook and the Review itself.

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Theme review team holds twice-monthly meetings. All members are encouraged to attend and new faces are welcomed.

This meeting we had an announcement about a new team structure as well as discussions about the future and the team’s purpose, according to the proposed agenda.

The following is the recap of the meeting, you can read the meeting transcript in the slack archives (a Slack account is required).

New Team Structure:

Team no longer has leads – the team now has respresentatives and it is a flat team structure with loosely defined roles and responsibilities where individuals can contribute in ways that they feel strongly about.

More about that in this post: New Theme Review Team Structure

Ticket Graph:

You can see the latest stats and the graph on the themes trac system.

In the past 7 days

304 tickets were opened
301 tickets were closed:
- 291 tickets were made live
  - 12 new Themes were made live
  - 279 Theme updates were made live
  - 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live
  - 10 tickets were not-approved
0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded

Update on Twenty Twenty

the single post mockup of the twenty twenty theme

The latest default theme Twenty Twenty Theme was ready to roll into the 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. package and is now confirmed as on track for releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. in 5.3.

Lots of contributors as you can see on this trac ticket. Big thank you to everyone mentioned in the props.

Uncommon Theme Queue Issues:

@acosmin mentioned there has been an issue with mistaken theme uploads lately. We need to investigate this further, but a trac ticket was opened that seeks to solve this issue.

Review Shindig:

There was a discussion on when the shindig would happen. A weekend event with a focus on Saturday was proposed. Potentially 1st Saturday of the month. No fixed date was decided on.

The point of the shindig is to share review tips and review themes together. It can take place in the #theme-review 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/. channel with optionally a voice/video call if people are interested in that.

You are encouraged to leave comments below if you missed the meeting.

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