Agenda for Docs Team Meeting October 26, 2020

The next meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Monday, October 26 2020, 05:00 PM GMT+2

Where: #docs channel on Slack.

Meeting Agenda

  1. Project Updates
  2. New Member Mentoring
  3. Monthly Coffee Break Reminder (October 2020)
  4. Google Season of Docs 2020
  5. Meeting Times
    • Review the Doodle for times proposed (time is in UTC)
  6. Discussion
  7. Open Floor

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Consolidated Summary for Docs Team Meeting on 12 October 2020

Unfortunately we didn’t see anyone volunteering to take notes for this meeting. Which is why I decided to publish this summary as a consolidated note for the convenience of all. I wish I was made aware of the situation earlier than this.

Ahmed Chaion

Attendance

@kartiks16, @atachibana, @softservenet, @kenshino, @fahimmurshed , @sukafia, @bizanimesh, @justinahinon, @tacitonic, @estelaris, @chaion07, @bph,

Find the Agenda of the Meeting here.

Thanks to @chaion07 for Facilitating the meeting.

House Keeping

Notetaker: We could use a few volunteers to take notes for our weekly meetings. If you want to help then please comment here or let us know during our meetings.

Facilitator for the next meeting: @softservenet

Next Meeting: 19 October 2020

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting 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/..

Project Updates

@atachibana reported on the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. and re-routing of Codex to Code:

  • 32 Classes out 43 have been completed which is an improvement of almost 7% leading to 74.4% from last week’s 67.4%, and
  • 62 HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. out of 355 have been completed which is an improvement of 3.1% leading to 17.5% from last week’s 14.4%.
  • @atachibana thanked @stevenlinx for the contribution.

@justinahinon provided update on the 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/ Developer Documentation:

@bph also provided an update beforehand on Digital check in for 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.-Editor End User Documentation (BEE-docs). Birgit requested that the BEE-docs team members leave comments on that post. (asynch to the meeting)

Figure: Block Editor End User Documentation Team

She also informed that with the help of many contributors the team collectively passed the 50% milestone for pages catching up to 5.5

The team couldn’t discuss the following agenda items due to dependency on @milana_cap and others:

Q3 Update

@kenshino shared a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18R79xWKOBp6Hosfs7Ao2kh-lFfhP3mR-4AbR4_BbeOo/edit# containing the Q3 Update Document for everyone to collaborate. He requested the members responsible for their team to add information respectively for a collective update. This collective information will be shared as ‘Team Updates’ that is posted in Updates Blog similar to the Quarterly Updates | Q2 2020

New Member Mentoring

@softservenet provided update as following:

  • The members of the team is focusing on taking turns to onboard new contributors to the #docs Team.
  • Anyone who has recently joined the team or still looking to find ways towards their first contribution should contact a member of the ‘New Member Mentoring Team’.
  • The Team is working on improving the process with task coordination for new members.

Monthly Coffee Break Reminder (October 2020)

@sukafia provided information on this agenda item:

  • The coffee break is taking place on the 29th of October, 12:00 UTC (with a EU-friendly time).
  • Please DM @sukafia or @chaion07 to get a calendar invite.

Meeting Times

There has been a broad discussion on the meeting time that may be suitable for majority of the team members. However it has proven to be very difficult with the DST (daylight saving time) practiced in different parts of the world. Reference to the discussion: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1602518383390100

Google Season of Docs 2020

Diana Mivelli provided update as following:

  • Been reviewing HelpHub articles and titles and recommending title updates.
  • Trying to make sure article titles adhere to sentence-case capitalization style (instead of title case) and suggesting titles away from gerunds.
  • Taking note of some overlapping content/duplicate content articles accordingly.
  • Discussing the ways to managing these suggestions as they come up with @estelaris.

@tacitonic provided update too:

  • About to finish the Language and Grammar section.
  • Updated the progress in the README file daily: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide
  • The style guide markdown importing and parsing (from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ to wp.org) is underway.
  • Extended the project duration from the standard length (3 months) to a long running project (5 months) upon I discussion with mentors, and found it appropriate to extend it owing to multiple factors.

Open Floor

@mkaz brought the discussion about ‘comments on Handbook‘. Reference to the discussion can be found here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1602519419426800

@bph shared a link to the ticket in reference to the topic discussion.

#meeting-notes, #summary

Agenda for Docs Team Meeting October 19, 2020

The next meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Monday, October 19, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Where: #docs 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/..

Meeting Agenda:

  1. Project Updates
  2. External Linking Policy
  3. New Member Mentoring
  4. Monthly Coffee Break Reminder (October 2020)
  5. Google Season of Docs 2020
  6. Meeting Times
  7. Open Floor

#agenda, #meetings

Digital Check-in for 🐝-docs team week October 19

Our Digital Check-in for this week:
Please share the following in the comments:

  • What did you work on last week?
  • What would you like to work on this week?
  • What are your blockers (things that stand in your way of your work) ?

This week is release week:

  • WordPress 5.6 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. 1 is schedule for October 20, which starts the beta/rc release testing phase. You can get a preview of the upcoming version via the WordPress Beta Tester plugin
  • 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/ 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 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 9.2 will be published later today (Oct 19) and that is the version that will be merged into WordPress 5.6 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  • Gutenberg plugin 9.2 release is scheduled for October 21.

Our reading list for this week:

Contributor Links

Looking forward to ‘seeing’ many of you at the next 🐝 docs Slack meeting on October 26, 2020 at 14:00 UTC

Agenda for Docs Team Meeting October 12, 2020

The next meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Monday, October 12, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Where: #docs channel on Slack.

Meeting Agenda

  1. Project Updates
  2. External Linking Policy
  3. Docs Videos
  4. Q3 Update
  5. New Member Mentoring
  6. Monthly Coffee Break Reminder (October 2020)
  7. Google Season of Docs 2020
  8. Meeting Times
  9. Open Floor

#agenda, #meeting

Summary for Docs Team Meeting: October 5, 2020

Facilitator of the meeting : @justinahinon

Attendance

@justinahinon @crstauf @chaion07 @ibdz @atachibana @bph @tacitonic @softservenet @sukafia @diana @cbringmann @estelaris @collinsmbaka @themiked @kulsumsiddique

Agenda

You can find the Agenda here.

Notetaker: @kulsumsiddique

Notes Reviewed by: @collinsmbakaand @tacitonic

Facilitator for Next Meeting: @chaion07

Follow the meeting on the Slack channel for Docs

Project Updates

@atachibana: We are migrating and re-routing Codex to Code Reference, and processed:
HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.: 62 of 355 (17.5% < – 14.4%) by @stevenlinx and @collinsmbaka .
He also did some housekeeping of Classes references.

External Linking Policy

Update from @themiked, here are the points that will need to be addressed regarding external linking policy

  • list all the 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 handbook external links
  • define safe 5-10 links
  • remove the rest
Docs videos

@zzap shared earlier today the progress on “How-To” videos with a new one that has been recorded. @milana_cap finally recorded and uploaded contributing “how to” video for setting up local HelpHub instance. She have also added all the commands and URLs below video for easy copy/paste.

New Member Mentor Training

The Docs new-member Mentorship Team invites six newest member in the team.

Monthly Coffee Break

@sukafia is planning for a coffee break on Thursday 29th October 2020 in the European time zone and the meeting will be scheduled at zoom.

Google Season of Docs 2020

@tacitonic has shared the following update;

Update from @dianamivelli;

  • I noted more recommendations for Help Hub topics to reflect new topic title format (action+object)
  • Reached out to @tacitonic on #docs team to find out the correct Help Hub topic title capitalization style (sentence case vs. title case) @tacitonic, thanks for the speedy response :blush:
  • Contacted @estelaris and @timohaver to verify next steps are inline with project plan.
  • Added weekly status section to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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 to keep notes on weekly progress.
  • Added our project master doc to 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/. (still learning how to use Git effectively)
Open Floor

@estelaris suggested that Possessive should be WordPress’. All words ending in s will only have an ‘ at the end. @tacitonic and @dianamivelli agreed to it.

#docs, #meeting, #meeting-notes, #notes

Agenda for Docs Team Meeting October 05, 2020

The next meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Monday, October 05, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Where: #docs 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/..

Meeting agenda

  1. Project Updates
  2. External Linking Policy
  3. Docs Videos
  4. New Member Mentoring
  5. Monthly Coffee Break Update (October 2020)
  6. Google Season of Docs 2020
  7. Open Floor

#agenda, #meeting

Digital Checking 🐝-Docs team for the week of October 5, 2020

Our Digital Check-in for this week:
Please share the following in the comments:

  • What did you work on last week?
  • What would you like to work on this week?
  • What are your blockers (things that stand in your way of your work) ?

Our reading list for this week:

Contributor Links

Looking forward to ‘seeing’ many of you at the next 🐝 docs Slack meeting on October 12, 2020 at 14:00 UTC

Summary for Docs Team Meeting on 28 September 2020

Attendance

@justinahinon, @milana_cap, @dianamivelli,  @chaion07, @crstauf@tacitonic@bph@sukafia, Leslie Liszcz, @softservenet, @paaljoachim, @yui, @fahimmurshed, @tjnowell, @bizanimesh, @kartiks16, @kulsumsiddique 

Thanks to @chaion07 for Facilitating the Meeting.

Notetaker & Facilitator Selection

Notetaker: We could use a few volunteers to take notes for our weekly meetings. If you want to help then please comment here or let us know during our meetings.

Facilitator for the next meeting: @justinahinon

Next Meeting: 5 October 2020

Find the full transcript of our meeting in 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/.

Project updates

@milana_cap recorded a video about setting up a local HelpHub for development and will upload it to the GDrive.

@bph inform us that the bee-docs team is getting all existing pages to 5.5 state.

  • WordPress 5.5 – 35
  • WordPress 5.4 – 12
  • WordPress 5.3 – 2
  • WordPress 5.0 – 17
  • Pre WordPress 5.0 – 3

For the external linking policy we need to:

  • list all the 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 handbook external links
  • define safe 5-10 links
  • remove the rest

The new member mentor team welcomed 4 new members: @Christopher Chism, @Veraleee, @Christian Martin, and @Akin Ocak.

We had the Monthly Coffee Break Zoom call last week, 4 members attended.

Updates on the Google Season of Docs 2020 projects:

@tacitonic reported this week:

  • I’ve completed the Document Guidelines section, with the exception of External Sources. I’ll write that after a final policy has been established.
  • Currently working on the Language and Grammar section.
  • I update my progress in the README file daily: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide
  • The location for the Style Guide is yet to be determined. I was thinking about a simple URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org similar to developers.google.com/style.

@dianamivelli begun working on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for the classification project and will start tracking progress and content in that repository. In the meantime, @estelaris will open a ticket to move the repository to WordPress.

Open Floor

Last week, @joyously mentioned that the page on how to contribute to the block editor was difficult to find. There was a discussion and as a quick fix, the team agreed to upload a link to the welcome box.

The team is asking the team reps to decide where will be the best place to add that link for easy finding. @milana_capsuggested a sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. with all the “Get Start” links and are waiting for response from @kenshinoand @atachibana.

Our band is growing, as suggested by @milana_cap we are listing the musicians in our team.

#meeting-notes#meetings

Agenda for Docs Team Meeting September 28, 2020

The next meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Monday, September 28, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Where: #docs channel on Slack.

Meeting Agenda

  1. Project Updates
  2. External Linking Policy
  3. Docs Videos
  4. New Member Mentoring
  5. Monthly Coffee Break Update (September 2020)
  6. Google Season of Docs 2020
  7. Open Floor

“Do not allow your fire to go out.Spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” 

Ayn Rand

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