Summary for Docs Team Meeting June 22, 2021


Attendance

@milana_cap, @courane01, @kmhazari, @chaion07, @femKreations, @tacitonic, @atachibana, @mehbubrashid, @ramthas, @kenshino, @mehbubrashid, @caseymilne, @deadpool76, @piermario, @estelaris, @collinsmbaka, @mburridge, @kafleg, @daisyo, @ahmedriyadh, @themiked

Housekeeping

Where: #docs channel on Slack
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Meeting Facilitator: @milana_cap

Note Taker: @caseymilne

Next Meeting Facilitator: No volunteers found for facilitation of next weeks meeting. Volunteer over #docs Slack if you can do this.

Project Updates

Proposal Update: An audit tool for Learn

Update provided from @courane01. No deadline set at the moment. Proposal gaining interest from team leaders, Learn/Training team will see a few new contributors from Automattic. Importance of streamlining auditing for teams mentioned, new Instructional Designers that are on-boarding at Learn. 

Discussion about revision management and the importance of tracking changes. Some questions from facilitator @milana_cap about existing tools used in editing workflow. 

Plans to continue collaboration between #docs and #train on this proposal, to set to write up docs needs in two weeks time, and have a video chat to discuss further.

5.8 Release

  • Today we’re entering beta 3 phase. 
  • By the next Tuesday (when RC1 is starting) we’ll have all dev notes and field guide published
  • After that we start working on DevHub and HelpHub updates

Volunteers: anyone wants to help with DevHub, ping @milana_cap over Slack #docs.

@atachibana shares that at WordCamp Japan 2021 there were many new contributions, one team is creating an end-user manual. Reference link https://jawordpressorg.github.io/user-manual/1_login/.

@chaion07 is focused on onboarding new members. Meeting will be set later this week for new members, details posted later on P2.

Docs #docs team is actively looking for new members and a new Block Editor End User Docs Project Lead. Block Editor End User Docs behind by 2 releases. For reference on this project see Trello board at https://trello.com/b/JnTCzOsL/gutenberg-end-user-docs.

@femKreations is continuing work on the Site Health docs.

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