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Sorry for the late post, folks. Here’s a rundown of what happened in last Thursday’s Docs Chat: 1. Docs chat time updated Since Daylight Savings is over, we’re now meeting weekly at 17:00 UTC, which is still 9am Pacific. 2. Docs Issue Tracker Mockups @sams posted mockups of the Docs Issue Tracker and would like…

Development has for realsies started on the new admin help feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. (hurrah!) It resides here, if you haven’t been paying attention to these updates: https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help Currently we’ve got 2 settings that appear…

Happy Monday Docs team! @karmatosed has started plugging away at mockups for your issue tracker and we’re ready for feedback! First off, here’s a mockup she’s created of the actual tracker itself, which is affectionately codenamed Documentron. The tracker includes columns for: reported username, date reported, type of issue (we’ll discuss which types are wanted…

The Verify test is now showing an even number of votes for tooltips vs. modals. @trishasalas has repoened the test and we’ll see if more votes roll in. For now, we’ll try to pursue both paths and do functionality tests when the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions…

The Docs meeting this week was relatively short, so not a lot to report aside from: 1. Docs Sprint There’s one happening now, Saturday Nov 2 and you’re welcome to join if you have time: http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/events/143053012/ We’re working on Theme and PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that…

Not much has moved on since last week. Here’s what we need to do. We need to see progress next week or we’ll have to start looking at how we can get things moving: @krogsgard to provide @rarst with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or…

@trishasalas ran a test on Verify. The results were close, but with 71 views and 11 responses, testers favored tooltips (slightly) over modals. We’re going this route seeing as how we’ve already got the big help overview at the top. (you can refresh your memory here) @jazzs3quence has created a GitHub repo to start development…

First, thanks to @kimparsell for leading last week’s chat and posting in my stead while I was out of town. Here’s what happened this week in our chat. If you’re interested, you can read the full chat logs. 1. DevHub @saracannon and @sams posted new DevHub design mockups and would like your feedback at: https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2013/10/21/feedback-on-devhub-designs/…

Howdy 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. Sofia Contributors! Thanks a bunch for helping with WordPress documentation – we all really appreciate your…