How to create the Training Team Update

Purpose

The Training Team uses these updates to report on how the team is doing with its different projects to the WordPress community. The updates are published in the Make WordPress Team Updates. Example Update

Responsibility

The team reps are responsible for creating the update
post on a rotating schedule. 

Timeline 

• Create at the end of each month.
• Publish by the 5th of the next month. 

Process

• As a team rep you will have access to the Team Updates dashboard.
• Open Dashboard>Posts
• Click on plus (+) in uppper left toolbar.
• Click on Patterns.
• Search Training team updates.
• Click on the pattern to add to the post.  

Adding information

Go through each line and update text to current information. 

• Update title: Training Team Update- {MONTH} {YEAR}
• Add link: Add the link to the top paragraph in the pattern for the Learn WordPress Newsletter.

Content Creation on Learn WordPress section

• Update current project
  • Write an overview of the project with links to posts with project information. 

• Other Projects and News
  • A list of projects and news with a short overview of each with links to any documentation. 

• Learn GitHub Repository Status
  • The data for this section is pulled from Cauldron. Team reps have access within their pinned documents in the Slack team rep channel. 
  • Follow directions Collecting GitHub stats for team updates
  • Add in parentheses ( ) the difference between this month’s and last month’s value.

To find the data for the following items. Click on the tab for Activity and in the
dropdown click on Overview. 

• Issues and Pull Requests
  • Issues created: # ()
  • Issues closed: # ()
  • Issues open: # ()
  • Pull requests created: # ()
  • Pull requests closed: # ()
  • Pull requests open: # ()

To find the data for the following items. Click on the tab for Community and in the
dropdown click on Overview. View #Active Members section of graph.

• Active Members
  • Git authors: # ()
  • Issue authors: # ()
  • PR submitters: # ()