On Wednesday, 05 November 2025, 02:00 PM UTC, <test-chat> started in #core-test facilitated by @nikunj8866. The agenda can be found here.
1. Attendance
In attendance was:
@nikunj8866 @sirlouen @mosescursor @r1k0 @rakib03029 @abduremon(async) @fakhriaz (async)
2. Volunteer
This week’s Note-taker was @nikunj8866
3. Test Team Discussions
- The Test Handbook is now synced with GitHub.
- Thanks to all contributors, especially @sirlouen, for leading the effort. Minor issues may remain, so everyone is encouraged to review and submit fixes.
- Time to Review/Update the Test Team Handbook Index Page.
- The team discussed reviewing and updating the Test Handbook Index Page to remove outdated content and align it with current team activities.
- @sirlouen suggested drafting one or more revisions for discussion before finalizing the changes.
- Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach and several other outdated testing types (e.g., unit testing, usability testing, triage/bug scrubbing) will be removed.
- The new focus areas for the Test Team will include Patch Testing Scrubs, Issue Reproduction Testing, and End-to-End (E2E) Testing.
- Proposed changes were submitted in Updating the Test Handbook Homepage #89 for review and feedback.
- The Test Handbook will get new pages for Feature & Enhancement Testing (#90), E2E Testing (#91), and Patch Testing Scrubs (#92); contributors can update these via GitHub issues.
4. Open Floor
- @sirlouen brought up Issue #9 regarding documenting current team goals and initiatives, and discussed adding a brief note about this in the Handbook homepage. Contributors can follow and participate in the discussion through the issue.
5. Announcements
Please receive the ECO system announcements
- Test Team Announcements
- WordPress Ecosystem Annoucement
- What’s new in Gutenberg 21.9? (22 October)
- WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing.
- Nominations Call for the themes team representatives: 2026 Edition
- Nomination for 2026 Training Team Reps
- The Plugin Check Plugin now creates automatic security reports after each plugin update
- Call for Testing
Several issues are available for testing ahead of the 6.9 release. Please help collaborate on these! Here’s a short list, but more will surely be discovered.- Help Test WordPress 6.9
- Actively developed for 6.9. See #66377
- We have Patch Testing Issues that need testing
6. Next Test Team Sessions
We usually have 2 meetings held every week and the times have been listed bellow for next week. An adjustment has been made to include the WordPress 6.9 Test Scrub.
- Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 02:00 PM UTC – <patch-testing-scrub> in #core-test.
- Thursday, 13 November 2025, 07:00 AM UTC – <WordPress 6.9 Test Scrub Session> in #core-test.
- Thursday, 13 November 2025, 04:00 PM UTC – <patch-testing-scrub> in #core-test.
Props to @sirlouen and @mosescursor for helping review chat summary.