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Engaging with the WordPress Community Post-Sabbatical

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As I return from my sabbatical, my capacity to contribute to WordPress is also coming back. While my available hours may be cut, that just means a shift in how I engage with the project.

I’m especially interested in gaining the perspective of someone who isn’t sponsored full-time. That way, if and when I’m able to return in a full-time capacity, I’ll do so with a deeper understanding of how to support others in this work, rooted in lived experience. There’s nothing quite like lived experience.

With that in mind, I want to hear from both contributors and users of WordPress: where can I be most helpful? Minor releases? Triage? Testing? Canonical plugins? User testing? Hallway hangouts? I’ll be reaching out to some of the teams directly, but I’m always curious to hear from the broader community as well. It’s part of my nature from working in open source to go as broad and deep as I can.

Of course, since I use WordPress every day, I’ll continue reporting bugs. I also plan to keep advocating for and creating opportunities for LGBTQ+ folks. And because I can’t stop taking photos, expect more of those in the WordPress Photo Directory too.

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  1. jeffpaul Avatar
    jeffpaul

    I’d love some help re-invigorating the discussion on your prior Let’s talk: WordPress Core & Artificial Intelligence post, which I’ve spoken with James LePage and Felix Arntz about directly and hope to have a proposal drafted that would benefit from your review.

    I’ve got some ideas on how we could put specific focuses on 6.8 minor releases, would be curious what focuses you’d like to see (especially if there are any you’d be interested in leading for a single, short cycle minor release).

    On the canonical plugins front, I’d love some help driving the U2F discussion within the 2FA plugin to a resolution so that all the related PRs could get properly merged/closed and a release out that brings the most modern handling to that plugin. Then perhaps a solid UX scrub for iterations focused on simplicity could bring that plugin much closer towards being “recommended”.

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    1. Anne McCarthy Avatar
      Anne McCarthy

      Count me in! I’d love to review and bring that conversation back. It sounds like an excellent candidate for some hallway hangouts at the very least.

      I love the attention and new opportunity being given to minor releases. It’ll be an interesting line to walk to not add new features while also trying to bring more value and a consistent framing. The focuses that come to mind for me fit nicely into the big buckets you have for paper cuts/UX polish:

      There’s a good tracking issue that overlaps with the above that could be updated and then pulled from to focus the work more.

      Can you share more about what’s needed for the U2F discussion? It looks like the recent comments on there are mainly about getting the current PRs merged so I’m definitely missing something.

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