Hello everyone. These are the meeting notes from the themes team discussion on January 11, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting was facilitated by @kafleg. The note was taken by @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here in the past 7 days,
- 357 tickets were opened
- 351 tickets were closed:
- 342 tickets were made live.
- 23 new Themes were made live.
- 319 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 9 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 342 tickets were made live.
Number of reviewers: 4
2. Noteworthy update
The themes team has been updating the Theme Handbook to reflect the upcoming release of WordPress 5.9. Some of the updates include
- Theme handbook main page is updated with brief information about the block theme and the link to the Block Editor Handbook.
- Updating your theme page is newly created. This page explains how to upload using SVN.
- New Block themes and Classic themes links were added to the side menu.
3. Child theme submission
We discussed the concern over the number of the child theme submission. Unfortunately, we could not come up with a definitive solution at this time. We hope the flag/badges system could bring a positive impact on this issue.
You can find more detail about the Next Steps on Themes and Reviews, including the flag and badges system at this link.
4. Open floor
No questions or comments were brought during the open floor.