Themes Team Meeting Notes – July 11, 2023

Howdy Mates! 

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

• Date: July 11, 2023
• Time: 15:00 UTC
• Location: #themereview channel
• Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
• Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
• Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
• Notes taker – @kafleg
• Full transcript –  #themereview channel

Attendees:

• @greenshady
• @shivashankerbhatta
• @sumitsingh
• @hanneslsm 
• @nazmul111 
• @bijayyadav
• @shrestharaaz 

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

• 668 tickets were opened
• 669 tickets were closed
  • 655 tickets were made live.
    • 21 new Themes were made live.
    • 634 Theme updates were made live.
    • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 14 tickets were not-approved.
  • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 8  Block themes are currently reviewing.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @fahimmurshed)

2. WCUS Contributor Day

For those who attend the WCUS and the Contributor day of it, I would like to request them to join the themes table as well.

In the themes table, table leads will guide you on how to contribute to community themes. So, this year WCUS CD will focus on building block themes for the community @poena, and @onemaggie will be there to guide you on what is community themes and how to contribute to them.

If you are interested in contributing, you can also contribute online for this community theme.

Read more here about WCUS contributor day. Contributor Day – WordCamp US 2023

3. Open floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared,

• Add this to your Calendar, https://wordpress.org/news/2023/07/6-3-live-product-demo/
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 3 is already available for testing. https://wordpress.org/news/2023/07/wordpress-6-3-beta-3/

@kafleg requested theme authors to test your themes with the beta and RC versions of 6.3. You’ll see exciting features that you were looking for for a long time.

@greenshady requested meeting attendees to help on reviewing and writing the theme handbook.

P.S. While writing this meeting note, beta 4 is also released.

#meeting, #meeting-notes, #themes-team