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Items discussed:
- New team leads.
- @rabmalin and @thinkupthemes have been chosen by current leads to be the next team leads.
- Current team leads will be stepping down sometime in October. Exact date to be confirmed.
- Plan is for the new leads to remain in place for 6 months. Future succession plans will be decided in future.
- Core ticket #37661-core. Potential removal of featured section and changes to tags.
- Plans to improve customizer experience to allow users to install themes from the directory directly from within the customizer.
- Core have proposed removing themes featured section in the admin area of the users website.
- Possibility that this will in time lead to the removal of the featured themes section on wordpress.org also.
- Content creation. (Can themes have content creation if the content is saved).
- Proposal for an approach which allows for content to be retained by users following a theme switch was presented. This relates to content that would otherwise usually be created via a companion theme specific plugin.
- The content would be available to the user, presented in the post content of a page following theme switch, allowing the user to easily continue to use the content in future.
- No changes have been made to the content creation guidelines following the outcome of the discussion.
- Progress update on adding Theme Sniffer to theme upload page.
- Next steps are to update the Theme Sniffer to the latest version of PHPCS which is 3.0.1 and PHPCs 0.13.0.
- New version of Theme Sniffer plugin planned for release once all existing Pull Requests and Issues have been addressed.
- Outstanding issues can be found here: https://github.com/WPTRT/WordPress-Coding-Standards/issues