Items discussed at today’s meetup:
WordPress 4.2 RC1 has dropped, please test
The Alpha/Beta sub-forum has been quiet lately. That could be good as there are few problems or it could mean that users are not testing. Please test and abuse the release candidate. 😉
Reporting sock puppet activity
I feel like I started a popular pastime activity among some of the moderators. Sock puppets are just background noise and do not matter. If a moderator finds them then block the sock puppet and delete their fake reviews.
If it’s a plugin author then send an email to the plugins team but make sure you are concise. The email can contain a subject such as “Sockpuppet – plugin name” and links to the accounts, plugin and sock puppet accounts. Be concise and include those details.
It’s not that the plugin team won’t believe you but those details are proof and can come in handy. By providing that detail you will be saving the plugin team some work.
Codex article on Version 4.2 needs love
Mika started the the WordPress version 4.2 Codex article but it needs more filling out. Please visit that page, follow the details posted on make/core and if you can help expand it that would be appreciated.
Badge recognition for IRC volunteers
Jon (@kenshino) brought up that there are a group of volunteers in IRC who go above and beyond in the support of WordPress users. @Clorith shared some metrics on how much effort they contribute and it’s a lot. The idea that they’ve raised is for their WordPress.ORG profile page get updated with a support badge.
It’s a great idea and after pinging Sam (@samuelsidler) Jon will collect the user IDs of those IRC support people and send them to Sam. At the moment those badges are manually inserted into those profiles.
View the meetup transcript in the Slack archives (A Slack account is required)