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- The team discussed reviewing and updating the Test Handbook Index Page to remove outdated content and align it with current team activities.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 revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. 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- Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach and several other outdated testing types (e.g., unit testing, usability testing, triage/bug scrubbing) will be removed.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 GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ 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 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 are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 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.