These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.
First, housekeeping. We can still use more volunteers for note-taking and triage leading. Leave a comment if you’re interested.
Next, @michael-arestad brings Gutenberg updates.
- Gutenberg 8.1 RC was released last Monday.
- Here’s an overview of what we’re working on in May.
- There is some interesting work being done on the Query block.
- The block navigator is getting some new useful tools.
- The welcome guide is getting a pretty great design update.
- The navigation block is seeing some forward progress (over a series of issues) with @karmatosed leading the design of several.
- Work is being done on an idea for template areas to function a bit more like adding a section (prototype) based on a discussion from last Friday.
Some exciting news: we are participating in Google’s Season of Docs! https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs This will help with the exploration of the new categories for documentation that will be included in the redesign of documentation.
Then, @ibdz updates us on the work being done on the Design Team Handbook to improve the flow and usefulness. Current content is being re-ordered, and soon the pages that need it will be (re-)written. Hopefully this will also help the onboarding process for Contributor Day.
Speaking of contributor day, Office Hours for onboarding new contributors should be planned. Volunteers to keep an eye on the design team slack channel and help anyone with questions would be greatly appreciated. Leave a comment below if you’re interested.
For Contributor Day itself, there are some suggestions for tasks:
- Updating Gutenberg components
- Picking up Core needs-design(-feedback) issues on Trac
- Picking up Gutenberg needs-design(-feedback) issues on Github
- Reclassifying articles with the Docs team
- Seeing where the Notification Center proposal is at, but that may be quite big
We agreed to start reviewing tickets with needs-screenshots for new contributors and having Monday 1 June/Tuesday 2 June triage as part of the on-boarding process.