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1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here. Thank you @poena for this post.
Current status:
- 5 new tickets are waiting for review.
In the past 7 days,
- 362 tickets were opened
- 370 tickets were closed:
- 351 tickets were made live.
- 29 new Themes were made live.
- 322 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 19 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Number of reviewers: 4
2. Theme directory uploads
On 7/7/ 2021, theme uploads were broken for a few hours due to the trac authentication change. The themes were added to SVN, but the trac tickets were not created for those themes. The issue was resolved quickly by the meta team and @dd32.
3. Prevent spam and keyword stuffing
During the meeting, attendees discussed whether there needs to be a new requirement added for spam and keyword stuffing. The attendees agree that it is difficult to steward the description whether automated or manual.
@joyously suggested making the readme visible so that it’s not only searchable but also provides more room for the authors to describe their themes.
@poena also suggested that a plugin similar to Akismet can be used to find spam in the description. See the related meta ticket #5773. You can follow up on the proposal and discussion here.
4. Theme Check plugin new update
The new version of the Theme Check plugin will be released in the upcoming days. This release will solve the upload issue for block themes and wp_title issues. Besides that, there are some minor fixes too.
5. Open Floor
The process of updating the existing theme to accessibility-ready was discussed. When the existing themes are changed to accessibility-ready, they will be listed in the Updates to accessibility-ready themes report.