The weekly support meeting was held on Thursday, February 23rd, 2023, 17:00 UTC in #forums on Slack. Read the transcript at your own pace (a Slack account is required)
Community headlines and updates
This is where news that are relevant or good to know for the team from across the community are brought up and shared.
Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication is available for testing on WordPress.org, the path to it is kind of hidden, as it is still being tested.
If your account has elevated privileges anywhere on WordPress.org, consider enabling two-factor even during this test phase though 🙂
If you have two-factor already, and encounter any bugs, please report them at the wporg-two-factor GitHub repository.
WordPress 6.2 betas
Beta testing of the upcoming WordPress 6.2 continues at full speed. Do you run a unique kind of site, or fresh and modern PHP versions? Help us test if you can!
Support Forum Bug Scrub
A scrub of support forum component tickets is scheduled for March 1st.
WordCamp Asia
The first WordCamp Asia was held over the last weekend, and we’ll get some updates on how contributor day went form a support perspective when the attendees have had a chance to settle in, kudos to the volunteers who helped by giving back during the event (and before/after, of course)!
Volunteers interested in taking on more responsibilities
In an effort to facilitate for more volunteers taking on new roles and responsibilities, there’s a proposal to have others take part in running weekly meetings. To lower the barrier, agendas will be prepared and the groundwork handled if desired, to make it easier to jump in and participate in more ways.
If this sounds interesting, please feel free to reach out to @clorith!
Checking in with international liaisons
No major issues being reported form the international liaisons this week.
Our friends in the Russian community are currently experimenting with Telegram as a community platform, and are seeing new faces, which is an exciting development!
Open floor
Open floor is a segment of our chat that is used if there is time left of the allotted meeting time, where items not initially on the agenda can be brought up, such as feedback or ideas, anything really (so long as it relates to the support team).
Updated FAQ for topic reporting
After the recent enhancements to the topic report functionality in the forums, the FAQ entry for how to report abuse or spam has been updated accordingly.
This improves on the reporting flow, and ensures that more initial information is available to those who respond to reports, so that the reporters may retain their anonymity moving forward by not needing ot be called upon to explain their report.