July in WordPress

Another month has turned and it saw a great time to focus on contributing to WordPress. I was lucky enough to get time to focus thanks to sponsors, here is what I did.

Areas of contribution

My split this month was clearly between triage, program work and feedback. In core editor there was a lot of feedback for design, for AI there was some foundation setting and organising.

• I focused on a few key areas this month:
  • ‘Needs design’: ensuring in core editor the queue is truly that.
  • Triage focused on ancient and inactive trac log and core-editor no comments.
  • Program work: sorting out milestones, labels and setup for core AI. This also included starting the handbook.
• Tickets covered: 89 (a large amount this time were feedback focused)

One reflection I had was giving myself time this month to give the feedback, have the planning and discovery conversations as 6.9 formed. This was a little different from the push to ship of past months, but it forms the base for focused work the next few months.

Sharing the journey

Last month I spent quite some time writing as I explored, so I wanted to also share those.

• Optimising triage with AI starting points (continued thoughts including exploring the MCP.
• First props and contributor journeys.
• What if we paused default themes.

Upcoming plans for contribution

August is going to close out by my attendance at WordCamp US, where I am giving a talk on ‘The system is the Strategy’. I also plan to attend the contribution day. Apart from that my focus will be:

• Triage: focus on ancient and inactive trac log.
• Core AI: fill out the handbook and have ready for WCUS contributor day. Continue to document processes and decisions as they are made, including roadmaps.
• Move on to the triage of the components label if time.
• Look to update design handbook ready for WordCamp US so it can also be self serve for current projects.

Sponsors this month