KafleG 12:20 am on March 15, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 14, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 14, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 438 tickets were opened
  • 427 tickets were closed
  • 420 tickets were made live.
  • 7 new Themes were made live.
  • 413 Theme updates were made live.
  • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 6 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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: 2  (@kafleg, @acosmin)

2. Community Themes Project

If you are not aware of the community themes project read here. In short, the community themes initiative is a collaborative effort to create blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. themes in much the same way as the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Twenty* themes are built.

During the meeting, @onemaggie informed us that there are already 3 themes underway. It’s really great news for this initiative.

@greenshady shared the GitHub link and requested everyone to join and contribute.

@shivashankerbhatta asked, “Is it only for individual contribution, or if any theme company can get involved”? Justin(@greenshady) replied, “Yes, anyone can be involved. The themes will be submitted under the WordPress username just like the core/default themes. So, it’s basically a collaborative effort to create more quality block themes for the WordPress community”. @onemaggie added, “It is a project born to foster collaboration and to spread the knowledge on how to build block themes.’

After checking the video and meeting notes, @shivashankerbhatta realize that the main problem will be is to maintain the themes. Justin said, “It is a potential problem that was brought up just based on the history of the Twenty themes not really being updated that often. It’s more of an “unknown” than a definite problem. I’m optimistic about keeping these themes updated since block themes are, by nature, simpler than classic themes”.

I would like to request you all spread the message about the community themes initiative and get more contributors involved.

3. Open Floor

There was nothing raised during the open floor.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @rinkuyadav999, @benlumia007, @shivashankerbhatta, @mhamal, @onemaggie for joining the meeting.

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

KafleG 2:33 pm on March 14, 2023
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KafleG 6:31 am on March 13, 2023
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Themes team meeting agenda for March 14, 2023

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 14th of March.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members, and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting Agenda

  • Weekly updates
  • Community Themes Project
  • Open Floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. Community Themes Project

Did you miss the Kickoff meeting for community themes? I would like to request you to check this post.

Summary: Community Themes Project Kickoff – Make WordPress Themes

3. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share theme-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

Justin Tadlock 2:49 pm on March 10, 2023
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Summary: Community Themes Project Kickoff

More than 20 members of the WordPress theming community gathered for an initial discussion on the proposed Community Themes project on March 7, 2023. The primary goal of the conversation was to gauge interest and discuss what this project might look like.

The Community Themes Initiative is a collaborative effort to create blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. themes in much the same way as the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Twenty* themes are built. However, it should afford designers and developers more room to experiment with ideas without all of the same limitations of a default theme. For more information on the project, please read the Community Themes Initiative proposal.

The meeting was recorded live over Zoom and is now available on WordPress TV:

Much of the meeting centered on what types of block themes participants could build. The short answer? Pretty much anything that falls within the WordPress theme review guidelines.

Some items were decided or reiterated in the meeting:

The biggest unanswered question from the discussion was around administrative expectations. In particular, there was a worry that the themes wouldn’t be updated as often as needed, which is an issue stemming from experience with the core Twenty* themes.

Because this is not a formal team with its own reps there are some undefined roles and guideposts that may need to be defined at some point. There seems to be enough excitement around the project that such a small issue is unlikely to be a major roadblock. However, it is worth continued discussion.

For now, the most important thing is to get the project moving. If you want to contribute themes back to the WordPress community, you can get started by visiting the WordPress Community Themes repository. This is a collaborative project, so you can participate to varying degrees, such as submitting a design mockup, adding a ticket with an idea, running code reviews, or testing. There are no hard and fast rules. The more people, the merrier.

Feedback, suggestions, and continued discussion on this project are encouraged. Please share your thoughts in the comments.

Props to @onemaggie for co-hosting the meeting and feedback on this followup post.

#community-themes, #hallway-hangout

Jonathan Bossenger 12:59 pm on March 8, 2023
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