Agenda for October 1, 2024

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

🆕 News

Meta news

• The Five for the Future site gets a refresh

Slack messages of interest

⚠️ Reminders for Community Conduct

1. Josepha Haden Chomphosy on Contributor Respect

• Josepha Haden Chomphosy urged the community: “I’m seeing this for the first time as well folks. At minimum, please don’t abuse our meta contributors about this.” Link

1. Reminder to Avoid Personal Attacks

• Marius Jensen urged contributors to keep discussions respectful and avoid personal attacks to prevent contributors from getting involved in any potential legal disputes. He suggested discussing these matters on social media or personal blogs instead. Link

🛑 Critical Issues

1. GatherPress Integration

• Feedback needed from Meta for integration. Link

1. 504 Error in Plugin Directory

• Reported recurring 504 error affecting RY WooCommerce Tools. Link

1. Plugin Directory Not Updating

• Benjamin Intal reported plugins not updating after pushing to SVN. Link

1. Download Button Issue

• Medavid Allsop reported issues with the download button for Old Post Notice showing ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE. Link

1. robots.txt and XML Sitemaps Review

• Joost de Valk raised concerns about WordPress.org robots.txt and XML sitemaps linked from it, describing them as problematic. Link

1. Plugins Sitemap Error During Accessibility Scan

• An issue was reported with the plugins sitemap (sitemap link) while scanning for accessibility problems. Christian Herrmann pointed back to Joost’s earlier comments for context. Link

1. Community Concerns Over Transparency and Messaging

• Concerns were raised about Automattic’s influence on .org communications, including A8C employees (like Dan Sochin) managing the .org Twitter account. Discussions also focused on how .org resources may be used to benefit .com. Additionally, concerns were raised regarding inappropriate language on WordPress.org and the professionalism of the platform’s messaging. Link

1. Meta Contributor Harassment Concerns

• Josepha Haden Chomphosy urged the community not to abuse meta contributors regarding recent issues. Cullen Whitmore apologized if any comments seemed abusive and requested a channel for agency owners affected by recent changes. Link

🔗 Actions & Contributions

1. WCUS Contributor Day

• GatherPress will be discussed at WCUS Contributor Day for coordination. Link

1. New Core Committer

• Carolina Nymark added as a core committer for bundled themes. #7763

1. Stable Strings Not Picked Up

• Medavid flagged stable strings for Old Post Notice Translation not being picked up due to earlier issues. Link

1. Rebuilding ZIP Files

• Dion Hulse suggested using bin/rebuild-zips.php with the --versions flag to fix plugin update issues. Link

1. New Channel for Real-Time Collaboration Feature

• Anne McCarthy proposed creating a dedicated Slack channel (#feature-realtime-collaboration) for the ongoing work on real-time collaboration and potentially inline commenting, to provide better coordination. Link

1. Five for the Future Contributions

• Steve Ryan asked about resources listing companies contributing to WordPress core. Several links were shared, including the Five for the Future pledges and WordPress Hosting pages, and discussion followed on which hosting providers contribute back to WordPress core. Link

🔄 Requests & Changes Needing Consensus

1. Julia’s Tag Request

• Julia requested removal from certain tags while retaining the @program-managers tag. Link

1. XML Sitemap Issue in Plugins

• Joost de Valk and Paul Kevan discussed problems with the plugins XML sitemap, confirming it was “sub-optimal.” Link

Rebuild & Download

1. Manual Rebuild Attempts

• Paul Kevan attempted a manual rebuild for plugin update issues but encountered an error. Link

1. Download Link Issue Resolved

GitHub & Trac

• Stretched images on some imported pages – Open
• Add ability to click through to block-editor package functions on GitHub – Open
• Documentation Update: Missing one important param – Closed

five-for-the-future

• Images Can’t Be Read by Screen Readers – Open
• Remove the admin actions in Organization pledge page – Open
• New layout in Organization pledge page – Open

General

• Rendering arbitrary Tailwind CSS classes break in Gutenberg Block – Closed
• La mise à jour a échoué : Le téléchargement a échoué. Not Found – Closed
• add SVG into allowed html tags (kses) – Closed
• Need to avoid extra white space and arrange content properly – Open

Handbooks

• Possible redirect for Core Handbook “Philosophy” – Closed

Make (Get Involved) / P2

• Update phpunit-test-reporter plugin to 0.2.0 – Closed
• Make refresh: Fix welcome box color – Open

meeting-calendar

• Redesign frontend – Open

pattern-directory

• Pattern Preview looks different than the actual design – Open
• No results & less pages in directory – Open

Photo Directory

• Allow for separate notes to user on approval and rejection – Closed
• Show a summary of contributor’s rejections by count and percentage – Closed
• Allow to edit the ALT text – Open

Plugin Directory

• Lowercase all tags – Open
• Integrate Plugin Check into plugin submissions – Open
• Add block-variation detection – Open
• Create a Releases page for every plugin – Open
• The search plugin field should not be blank – Closed
• Validate the ‘Requires’ plugin header – Open

Trac

• The page has a small font size which is not properly visible – Open

Version Control

• Add Precommit Hook to WordPress Core SVN – Closed

wordcamp.org

• Enable attendees to be filtered by ticket type – Open
• Speaker and Sessions CSV Import – Open
• QBO monitor – Open
• Tickets: Add the ability to handle secondary event tickets – Open
• Enable Jetpack Shortlinks for custom post types – Open

wordpress.org

• Handbook – Open
• Page headers could be more substantial – Open
• Can we upgrade “Show full post”? – Open
• Underlined links in the sidebar – Open
• Share this improvements – Open
• Line-height in avatar – Open
• Unify search fields – Open
• Dashicons should be 20px – Open
• Question about heading levels – Open
• Show separator between header and subheader – Open
• Make refresh: Polish button styles – Open
• Add theme switcher on /team blogs – Open
• Breathe 2024 theme RTL support – Open
• Make blogs: Convert callout blocks to notice blocks – Open
• translate.wordpress.org: add cloud translation suggestions via Google Cloud Translation API – Open
• Automatic package releases are not working on past branches – Open

wporg-gp-translation-events

• Add Navigation Items to an event you can edit – Open
• Add Navigation items to My Events – Open
• Social Sharing is broken because of robots.txt – Open
• Add Unit Tests for Form Handler – Open

wporg-mu-plugins

• Table of Contents: Update the heading anchor link icon – Open
• Global header navigation items :focus state not visible in Windows High Contrast mode – Open

wporg-news-2021

• Improve the print stylesheet for News – Open

wporg-theme-directory

• Sort themes new to old in the author archive page with a local – Open

Cross-team news

• Plugin Check and 2FA Now Mandatory For New Plugin Submissions

Other news

Open Floor

Action Items