Docs Chat: Mar. 13, 2014


Thank you to everyone who came. For anyone unable to attend, you can read the logs here.

The following is a summary of the topics that were discussed.

1. DevHub: Work continues on fixing parser-related issues. @samuelsidler said volunteers are still needed to help with the handbook theme. If you would like to work on the project, leave a comment on this post, or come to the weekly IRC chat on Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC.

2. AH-O2: There are some big changes, and a new direction, for both the team and the project. The new co-leads are @trishasalas and @Clorith. @jazzs3quence will still be involved in the project in a supportive role. Their weekly meeting on 3/10/2014 was used to discuss the Feature Plugin Meeting, and the feedback @jazzs3quence received regarding the current implementation of the plugin. They also began laying the groundwork for the new direction the project will take. If you would like to be part of the effort, please attend the weekly IRC chat on Mondays at 18:30 UTC.

3. Handbooks: @sewmyheadon and @hanni met on Wednesday to discuss the current status of the handbooks. @philiparthurmoore has made progress on the Theme Developer Handbook intro. @sewmyheadon still needs to review it.

4. WordPress Core Style Guide: The team discussed a post that proposed a community-written (and maintained) style guide for WordPress Core to follow. The consensus was that WordPress has its own voice, and there are places where that voice could probably be refined a bit. A WordPress Core style guide could be written, but it would be a canonical reference rather than a community-driven guide.

5. New WordPress.org Profiles: @jenmylo reached out to the team reps a few weeks ago about identifying people in each team to get badges on the new profiles that are being worked on. At some point they hope that the process may be automated, but for now, the profile badges will be manually added. I have already provided a preliminary list of names of team members.

6. In-House Mentorship Program: @DrewAPicture and I talked to @jenmylo and @andreamiddleton about the program at WordCamp Phoenix in January. They hope to kick off the one-month ‘contributor onramp’ within the coming month. The team discussed what the requirements are, what tasks we could have someone work on for the one-month contributor onramp, and possible mentors.

7. Group Chats Calendar for WordPress Project: @GaryJ brought up the idea in IRC for a group chats calendar that people could subscribe to. @siobhan said this would be a project for the Meta team, if a decision was made to implement one. Concern was expressed that, without a maintainer, the calendar could end up with incorrect information listed. The consensus was that the chat times listed in the sidebar for each of the Make blogs should be sufficient for now.

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