The training team has recently initiated a conversation about how we will ensure that the lesson plans that our team produces will continue to be up to date when WordPress itself is updated.
Questions we have asked so far include:
- When do we start tracking our plans to make sure they are up to date?
- Do we start tracking after the plans have been copy edited and ready to test?
- Do we only pay attention to completed approved plans?
- How should we track the changes to WP and which plans they may impact?
- How and who will do the updating of content?
In the fall of 2014 we explored an idea in our meetings and at WordCamp San Francisco about adapting the Content Audit plugin or something similar for use in tracking changes from the dashboard of make.wordpress.org/training. This was an idea that was thoroughly researched and documented by @juliekuehl in this post: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2014/11/08/request-for-the-content-audit-plugin/. Moving forward, we should continue this conversation as part of the larger conversation about how to ensure accurate lesson plans.
The conversation has boiled down to two fundamental issues that we need to address, which are:
- What process will we use to make sure plans are up to date?
- When is a plan considered “complete enough” to start tracking to ensure it is accurate?
This post will be the place where we keep a running documentation of our conversation around this issue. Please leave your thoughts in the comments!