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Weekly Deputy Report: 25 – 31 August 2017
The stats for this report are taken from the weekly Help Scout reports and, as such, only reflect the activity inside Help Scout. While this covers the majority of our community work and interaction, it excludes a few things: most WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the…
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Dev Chat Summary: August 30th (4.9 week 5)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 30th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 schedule review 4 weeks until the feature project merge deadline, 5 weeks until BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and…
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Summary for Helphub Bug Scrub 24 August 2017
Last week we didn’t have bug scrubs due to regular Fortnight Docs meeting. You can check last summary here. Closed issues Development tools – #130, #132, #134, #136, #138, #141 All closed issues Closed PRs Development tools – #133, #135, #137, #139, #143, #144 Markup issues – #128 All closed PRs Huge thank you to…
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Gutenberg & Themes
There’s been a few interesting conversations about Gutenberg in the context of what the future of WordPress may look like. Given the fact we are starting from the bottom up with the post and page editor, and not yet directly tackling wider theme or customization implications, I thought it could be useful to record a…
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Decision making process discussion summary and proposal
ETA: A lot of interesting feedbacks and questions, we’ll keep this open a bit more so everyone can chime in. New deadline Sunday, October 15. Keep ’em coming! Thanks! This post summarizes the discussion about the decision making process of the Community team, and proposes an “alpha version” of a possible structure we could set…
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w.org Feature Request : Switch to English
Hi Polyglots, whenever I come across a 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…
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A new way to highlight our decisions
One of the issues that we face fairly frequently on this blog is that we have long discussion threads, resulting in hidden conclusions that are tough to find. This is, of course, due to the enthusiastic and vibrant nature of our community – something that we love and will always endeavour to foster as much…
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Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for:
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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Hosting Meeting Notes: August 23, 2017
Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on (Slack archive). Distributed Testing This became live on make/hosting last week, and there are now two hosts participating. @danielbachhuber notes that we should run a betaBeta Beta is the software development phase following alpha. A Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but…