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  • 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 30

    Current PRs for review: 0 in 4.6 Milestone (-1) 24 in 4.7 Milestone (-3) Open issues in 5.0.0: 1 (-14)Open issues in 5.0.1: 34 (-18) Open issues in 5.0.x (fast follow): 122 (+17)5.0 status: RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final…

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  • Accessibility team meeting agenda: November 30th

    This is the proposed agenda for the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: November 28th (5.0 Week 9)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 28th (agenda, Slack archive). 5.0 Planning and Updates We started with a reminder that RC1 is out and moved quickly into a lively discussion about remaining blockers, timing, and general logistics. I’ve summarized them the best I could below. There was a request for review on…

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  • Weekly design meeting notes of Wednesday November 28, 2018

    Howdy! Another great week, and another meeting in the #design team. Following are notes shared from the discussion. If you prefer the uncondensed  version of things, you can checkout the Slack log! Contributing at WordCamps Props to @folletto and @karmatosed (along with others who helped finesse the wording) for an update to the guide for…

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  • November 29th Support Team Meeting Summary

    General announcements The plan is to launch HelpHub tomorrow, Friday November 30th. This has a slight impact on the support team, as it means the first page you are presented with when you look for support is HelpHub, instead of the list of forums that exist as of right now. This is to encourage self-help…

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  • WordPress-localized Lighthouse Audits

    Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You give Lighthouse a URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org to evaluate (public or requiring authentication), and it runs a series of audits against the page for performance, accessibilityAccessibility…

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  • PTE Request

    Hello Polyglots, I am the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 29

    Current PRs for review: 1 in 4.6 Milestone (-6) 27 in 4.7 Milestone Open issues in 5.0.0: 15 (=)Open issues in 5.0.1: 52 (-1) Open issues in 5.0.x (fast follow): 105 (-1)Current betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have…

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  • Training Team Meeting Agenda 29 November 2018

    The WordPress Training Team Meets Today! Please join us at 19:30 UTC in the #training SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel for our weekly meeting! Today’s Agenda Exciting learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This…

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  • Hi,

    Can the following user get added as PTE for https://wordpress.org/plugins/complianz-gdpr/? #de_DE – @thomasnasser (@tobifjellner) Would be great if he can be made PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project…

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