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Improve contributor experience by defining and organizing Make WP Slack channels #292

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sereedmedia opened this issue Sep 1, 2023 · 4 comments
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Improve contributor experience by defining and organizing Make WP Slack channels #292

sereedmedia opened this issue Sep 1, 2023 · 4 comments
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In order to improve the WordPress contributor experience, for both new and ongoing contributors, it would be helpful to have a clear understanding of the Slack (or Matrix) channels that are available. This could/should tie in to the Contributor onboarding flow being created from the new /contribute page #290

Some discussion has also been ongoing in the 6.4 release leads Slack channel about sub-channels created for 6.4, including 6.4 Design Cohort, 6.4 Editor Tech Cohort, 6.4 Marcomms.

The idea behind creating release-specific channels was to move conversations from DMs into public channels. But that structure may not be (is not) replicable across three releases a year.

Stemming from that and in alignment with the goals of Contribute onboarding flow, I wanted to begin to outline the structure of the Make WP Slack public channels. This ticket is a home for that work.

My hope is that we can create a standardized structure for the Make WP channels, possibly more closely aligned with the Make team structure with the goal of simplifying contribution.

Make WP Public Slack Channels (as of Aug 31, 2023)

This is a simple list of all of the public channels.

ITEM Description Number of Members
Announcements (Required) The #general channel is for team-wide communication and announcements. All team members are in this channel. 46059
6.1 Site Editor Merge 18
6.2 Release Leads A fishbowl for WP 6.2 and 6.2.x squads! Share non-squad questions in #core or #core-editor. 95
6.3 Release Leads A fishbowl for WP 6.3 and 6.3.x squads! Share non-squad questions in #core or #core-editor. 193
6.4 Release Leads Not sure who to contact about your ticket, bug, or questions? Check the list of squad and cohorts: link 155
6.4 Design Cohort This channel is to discuss design-related issues for 6.4 release. Co-leads @estelaris and @ellen Bauer Cohort members @ana Cirujano @Cathi Bosco @allisonplus @sonia @Ohia Mentor @karmatosed 29
6.4 Editor Tech Cohort 28
6.4 Marcomms Sub-Slack channel for the management of Marcomms for WordPress 6.4. 13
Accessibility WordPress accessibility team. link 2465
Accessibility Docs Accessibility Docs chat Work on Google Drive: link 468
Accessibility Events Organizing WordPress Accessibility Day 252
Accessibility Testing Testing accessibility! 300
bbPress Democratizing Discussion 684
bbPress Commits All commits to bbPress are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #bbpress for discussions. 92
bbPress Firehose ALL tickets, comments, and commits for bbPress Trac are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #bbpress for discussions. 81
bbPress New Tickets All new tickets to bbPress are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #bbpress for discussions. 85
Bots (Archived) Until we move them to appropriate channels, this channel gets all the bots. Testing purposes. 0
BuddyPress Democratizing Community 857
BuddyPress Commits All commits to BuddyPress are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #buddypress for discussions. 99
BuddyPress Firehose ALL tickets, comments, and commits for BuddyPress Trac are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #buddypress for discussions. 93
BuddyPress New Tickets All new tickets to BuddyPress are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #buddypress for discussions. 109
CLI Development of WP-CLI. link 3085
CLI Firehose 149
Community Events For WordCamp, Meetup, and other WordPress event organizers to communicate and learn link 4881
Community Notifications Syndicated updates of services for Community. 38
Community Team 2364
Contributor Day Team Logistics 1110
Contributor Mentorship 125
Core WordPress CORE development only. NOT for support or general chatting. New Contributor meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 19:00 UTC. Upcoming WordPress Meetings: link 43955
Core Bootstrap Bootstrap/Load component 341
Core CI Firehose ALL CI and testing related activity for WordPress Core is piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #core for discussions. 21
Core Coding Standards Discussing and furthering WordPress Coding Standards. 851
Core Comments 185
Core Commits All commits to WordPress core are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #core for discussions. 398
Core Committers Onboarding, questions, and tips amongst committers. All other conversation will be directed elsewhere. 471
Core CSS Discuss CSS architecture and tooling, propose and maintain standards, ask questions and educate on best practices. 616
Core Customize A channel for the WordPress customizer. 867
Core DateTime Core Date/Time component development. 92
Core Dev Blog Channel to coordinate, discuss the editorial process for the Developer Blog at link 102
Core Docs Core documentation 502
Core Editor Editors and editing UX. 3850
Core Editor Commits Firehose channel for Gutenberg commits. 134
Core Editor Firehose Firehose of all activity on the Gutenberg repo. 132
Core Fields 362
Core Firehose ALL tickets and comments for WordPress Core Trac are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #core for discussions. 223
Core HTML API link 6
Core HTTP API 55
Core HTTPS HTTPS and HTTP/2 discussions 274
Core i18n
Core Importers Focussing on the creation of the next generation of WordPress exporting and importing. 38
Core JS JavaScript: The Good Bits 1465
Core Media Image/Media related discussion link 784
Core Multisite WordPress core's multisite feature 918
Core New Tickets (read-only) "All new tickets opened against WordPress core are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #core for discussions." 283
Core Performance This channel is aimed at discussing WordPress core performance, facilitating weekly chat/meetings, coordinating focus area/roadmap as well tasks. Weekly chat on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC 773
Core Performance Firehose 22
Core PHP Discussing Core PHP patterns and best practices. 1282
Core PressThis Weekly meeting Thursdays at 17:00 UTC. –– Trac: link 103
Core Privacy Discussing WP privacy related topics. Implementing core privacy enhancements. Weekly Office hours: Tuesdays @ 20:00 UTC Please do not use threads. They are not accessible. 845
Core REST API Development of the REST API core focus. Weekly meetings Thursdays at 18:00 UTC 2186
Core Signatures 41
Core Site Health Working on the Site Health feature in WordPress Core. 239
Core Sitemaps 104
Core Test We fuel the feedback loop to continuously improve the WordPress experience. Focus: QA and testing including user, manual, attempting to reproduce reported issues, and automated tests. link 1034
Core Themes Development of the default themes, from Twenty Ten to Twenty Fifteen and beyond. 1761
Core Themes Firehose Firehose channel core theme GitHub repositories 70
Core Themes Projects A channel for special projects related to core themes. 90
Core TinyMCE TinyMCE integration link
Core Upgrade Install Discussion pertaining to the Upgrade/Install component. 276
Core Weekly Update Collaboration on the weekly WordPress Core update post 412
Council Ops Working channel for Council related initiatives. Questions, of course, welcomed here. Looking to volunteer? Most work is handled directly in #marketing, #meta, or #design 87
DEIB Working Group 49
Design 4466
Diverse Speaker Support Connecting speakers from underrepresented communities to WordPress speaking opportunities. Mentorship, networking, and event opportunities. 373
Docs WordPress documentation team. link • HelpHub & Docs Team chats are alternated weekly on the same day and time - Mondays link 2685
Docs Firehose Firehose of GitHub and other relevant events for the Docs team 26
Enterprise Channel for collaborating around marketing and voice when targeting the enterprise market. 36
Feature ImageFlow A WordPress core feature plugin for improving the image editing and media experiences. 191
Feature Notifications Notifications API chat. 437
Feature Reactions Developing the Reactions feature plugin: link 80
Feature ShinyUpdates Hide the ugly parts of updating WordPress. Weekly chats on Tuesdays at 1900 UTC. 114
Feature Shortcode link 232
Feature Website Navigation Discussions about Navigation in Gutenberg. Project board: link Tracking issue: link 173
Forums For support forums and IRC moderators. (Not for support!) link link
FSE Outreach Experiment 711
GitHub Teams Collab A channel for cross-team collaboration for assisting in improving usage of WP.org Github through workflows, projects, repos, teams, actions, docs & handbooks, and automations, as well as Issue/Repo Templates and tooling. 36
GlotPress Development of the GlotPress translation tool. link Use #meta-i18n for technical discussions about translate.wordpress.org. See #polyglots for non-technical discussions like editor requests. 451
GlotPress Firehose ALL tickets and comments for GlotPress Trac are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #glotpress for discussions. 68
Hosting 1371
Incident Response Have questions about WordPress code of conduct or incident reporting? Drop them here! If you want to report an incident, email us at reports@wordpress.org 43
KidsCamp Talk about bringing the next generation onto WordPress! 67
LMS Working group to allow LMS plugins for WordPress to use a common SQL data storage and make sure we integrate with industry standards for educational content. 84
Marketing The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project. Get started with our handbook: link 2162
Mentorship Cohort July 2023 This is a dedicated channel for the inaugural Contributor Mentorship Program cohort which will run from Jul 12 - Aug 9 2023. 66
Mentorship FBOA Facebook Open Academy Program, for which WordPress is a participating project. The admin is @georgestephanis — talk to him with questions. 118
Meta Channel for the WordPress.org site. link Plugin Directory Chats - Wednesdays 22:00 UTC 2592
Meta Commits All commits to WordPress.org (Meta) are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #meta for discussions. 95
Meta DevHub link development. Chat Tuesdays 19:00 UTC link 352
Meta Firehose ALL tickets and comments for WordPress.org Meta Trac are piped here. READ ONLY CHANNEL. Use #meta for discussions. 82
Meta HelpHub Development and discussion of the HelpHub project. 152
Meta i18n Overseeing the development of global WordPress sites, translate.wordpress.org, localized plugin/theme directories, etc. 561
Meta Language Packs A channel for language pack & translate.WordPress.org notices. 782
Meta Learn Learn.WordPress.org discussion WordPress Meta Team link 172
Meta Playground The group working on the WASM Playground link 133
Meta TracDev Developing our Trac customisations. 92
Meta WordCamp 931
Meta WordCamp Experiments This channel is for discussion features and improvements to WordCamp specifically in relation the the new Pilot programs. 27
Mobile Development of the WordPress mobile Android and iOS apps. link 950
NextGen Event Supporters This channel is for NextGen Events Supporters and Mentors to discuss about the event organizing process and implementation, as well as outreach and learning. 22
Openverse link - Search engine for openly licensed, GPL compatible media, CC licensed images, and more. 321
Openverse Firehose Use #openverse for discussions! 25
Photos Discussion about the WordPress.org Photos directory: link 332
PluginReview For people who perform code and security reviews on plugins in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Please don’t post security vulnerabilities here, email plugins@wordpress.org instead. 3221
Polyglots The WordPress translators. link 3828
Polyglots Events For organising Polyglot-focussed events 476
Polyglots Multilingual Community A wider effort, dealing with what structures we need for reusable context-aware document translation. Collaboration between polyglots, docs, training, meta, plugins, community, hosting, WP TV, and support 69
Polyglots Warnings A special channel to log any translation warnings generated on Translate.WordPress.org. 322
Props 561
Research Planning and implementation of user research. 241
SlackHelp Having trouble with the WordPress.org Slack instance? You're in the right place. Also use this channel for requesting integrations and other administrative tweaks. 41736
Sustainability Please read our Proposal for an official WordPress Team: link And please do visit: link 266
Team Reps Discussions and questions from team reps about how to support their teams. Timely updates to pass along to team meetings. Raising red flags and blockers for us all to be aware of. 142
Testing Slack This channel is for nothing. Use it to test out some Slack features. For the WordPress Test team, please see #core-test 158
ThemeReview Theme reviewers. If you need help with general theme support please try the Support forums or the #wordpress IRC channel. 5478
ThemeReview Firehose Firehose of Theme Review action 30
Tide Coordination of the work on Tide 407
Training WordPress Training Team weekly meetings Tuesdays at link and Thursdays at link. To get started with the team, go to link 2390
Training Guide Cohort Sep 2023 1
Training Notifications This channel is for notifications about Tutorials, Lesson Plans, Online Workshops, and Courses that have been recently published. 52
Walkthrough This channel supports release cycle product walk-throughs - coordinating event logistics and fielding questions for presenters. 112
WCAssia A channel for #wcasia attendees - link 492
WCEU A channel for #wceu attendees - ask questions, plan activities, have fun about WCEU link 1325
WCUS Welcome to the WordCamp US channel on the Make WordPress Slack Channel. Join in the discussion, sharing your experiences at WordCamp US or via the live stream. 1369
Website Redesign Coordination of the WordPress.org website redesign. link 274
WP Rig 472
WPTV The WordPress.tv website is the hub of all video content from WordCamps and Meetups organized by the WordPress community. link 165
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Current channel structure is roughly as follows:

  1. 6.1 Site Editor Merge
  2. 6.2 Release Leads
  3. 6.3 Release Leads
  4. 6.4 Design Cohort
  5. 6.4 Editor Tech Cohort
  6. 6.4 Marcomms
  7. 6.4 Release Leads
  8. Accessibility
    • 8-1. Accessibility Docs
    • 8-2. Accessibility Events
    • 8-3. Accessibility Testing
  9. Announcements (Required)
  10. bbPress
    • 10-1. bbPress Commits
    • 10-2. bbPress Firehose
    • 10-3. bbPress New Tickets
  11. Bots (Archived)
  12. BuddyPress
    • 12-1. BuddyPress Commits
    • 12-2. BuddyPress Firehose
    • 12-3. BuddyPress New Tickets
  13. CLI
    • 13-1. CLI Firehose
  14. Community Events
  15. Community Notifications
  16. Community Team
  17. Contributor Day
  18. Contributor Mentorship
  19. Core
    • 19-1. Core Bootstrap
    • 19-2. Core CI Firehose
    • 19-3. Core Coding Standards
    • 19-4. Core Comments
    • 19-5. Core Commits
    • 19-6. Core Committers
    • 19-7. Core CSS
    • 19-8. Core Customize
    • 19-9. Core DateTime
    • 19-10. Core Dev Blog
    • 19-11. Core Docs
    • 19-12. Core Editor
      • 19-12-1. Core Editor Commits
      • 19-12-2. Core Editor Firehose
    • 19-13. Core Fields
    • 19-14. Core Firehose
    • 19-15. Core HTML API
    • 19-16. Core HTTP API
    • 19-17. Core HTTPS
    • 19-18. Core Performance
      • 19-18-1. Core Performance Firehose
    • 19-19. Core PHP
    • 19-20. Core PressThis
    • 19-21. Core Privacy
    • 19-22. Core REST API
    • 19-23. Core Signatures
    • 19-24. Core Site Health
    • 19-25. Core Sitemaps
    • 19-26. Core Test
    • 19-27. Core Themes
      • 19-27-1. Core Themes Firehose
      • 19-27-2. Core Themes Projects
    • 19-28. Core TinyMCE
    • 19-29. Core Upgrade Install
    • 19-30. Core Weekly Update
  20. Council Ops
  21. DEIB Working Group
  22. Design
  23. Diverse Speaker Support
  24. Docs
    • 24-1. Docs Firehose
  25. Enterprise
  26. Feature ImageFlow
  27. Feature Notifications
  28. Feature Reactions
  29. Feature ShinyUpdates
  30. Feature Shortcode
  31. Feature Website Navigation
  32. Forums
  33. FSE Outreach Experiment
  34. GitHub Teams Collab
  35. GlotPress
    • 35-1. GlotPress Firehose
  36. Hosting
  37. Incident Response
  38. KidsCamp
  39. LMS
  40. Marketing
  41. Mentorship Cohort July 2023
  42. Mentorship FBOA
  43. Meta
    • 43-1. Meta Commits
    • 43-2. Meta DevHub
    • 43-3. Meta Firehose
    • 43-4. Meta HelpHub
    • 43-5. Meta i18n
    • 43-6. Meta Language Packs
    • 43-7. Meta Learn
    • 43-8. Meta Playground
    • 43-9. Meta TracDev
    • 43-10. Meta WordCamp
      • 43-10-1. Meta WordCamp Experiments
  44. Mobile
  45. NextGen Event Supporters
  46. Openverse
    • 46-1. Openverse Firehose
  47. Photos
  48. PluginReview
  49. Polyglots
    • 49-1. Polyglots Events
    • 49-2. Polyglots Multilingual Community
    • 49-3. Polyglots Warnings
  50. Props
  51. Research
  52. SlackHelp
  53. Sustainability
  54. Team Reps
  55. Testing Slack
  56. ThemeReview
    • 56-1. ThemeReview Firehose
  57. Tide
  58. Training
    • 58-1. Training Guide Cohort Sep 2023
    • 58-2. Training Notifications
  59. Walkthrough
  60. WCAssia
  61. WCEU
  62. WCUS
  63. Website Redesign
  64. WordCamp Photographers
  65. WP TV

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Spreadsheet showing where WordPress work happens: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-IyRl9555ASn5zZ8woGVyGNhydm0e5261DSYbWoEvQE/edit?usp=sharing

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Revise for Matrix Embracing Matrix for Enhanced Communication

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I've linked the list, but will need to group by teams.

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