On Thursday, October 22nd, 2025 at 05:00 PM GMT+3, <test-chat> started in #core-test facilitated by @mosescursor The agenda can be found here.
1. Attendance
In attendance was:
@sirlouen @nikunj8866 @rakib03029 @mobarak @r1k0 @rollybueno @fakhriaz @passoniate @shsajalchowdhury @harshalkadu @narenin
2. Volunteer
This week’s Note-taker was @mosescursor
Meet next week’s note taker @nikunj8866
3. Test Team Discussions
- Time to Review the Test Handbook Overhaul:
- We are in the last lap for the test handbook completion!
- @sirlouen reported that he had already contacted the Meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team to schedule a date to start syncing and also mentioned that the project is 99.99% complete, and once a date is confirmed, they will complete the final administrative tasks and proceed. @sirlouen also noted that @dd32 was copied in on the communication.
- @sirlouen also shared that he is going to edit all current documentation pages to add a GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ link and indicate that the pages are outdated. Once the sync is complete, those pages will be removed and replaced with new content. He also mentioned that work can begin on one or two GitHub pages now, starting with the badges page.
- @nikunj8866 emphasized that the slugs needs to be observed as same before removing and archiving old pages
- A few Tickets were pending Reviews and volunteers were assigned. We are almost there. All tickets were reviewed by meetings end and merge ready. @sirlouen will proceed to merge
- We are in the last lap for the test handbook completion!
- Proposal for creating an Archive Section in the Handbook.
The archive section was supported in the last meeting and these two pages are among those to be first archived. - We need to build a new page for Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ testing
@sirlouen is moving to Gutenberg tests and will do build the page
4. Open Floor
No additional topics were brought up during the open floor section of the meeting.
5. WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
Please receive the ECO system announcements
- Test Team Announcements
- Call for Testing
Several Issues are available for testing ahead of the 6.9 release. Let’s help collaborate on these as well. Here is a short list but more will surely be found especially after the beta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. release last night- Collaboration: add block 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.-level comments:
6. Other Meetings
We usually have 2 meetings held every week and the times have been listed bellow for next week. an adjustment has been made to include the WordPress 6.9 Test Scrub and will soon be listed
Props to @nikunj8866, @sirlouen for helping review these notes and offering feedback.
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