On Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 at 04:00 PM GMT+2, <test-chat> started in#core-test facilitated by @sirlouen. The agenda can be found here.
1. Attendance
In attendance was:
@sirlouen @huzaifaalmesbah @rithika3 @r1k0 @oglekler @sajib1223 @noruzzaman @dhruvang21 @fakhriaz @mosescursor @harshalkadu @muddassirnasim
2. Volunteer
This week’s facilitator was @sirlouen
This week’s Note-taker was @mosescursor
3. Test Team Discussions
- Time to Review/Update the Test Team Reps Page.
- A recent discussion brought up 2 things
- New contributors badge requirements
- Test Reps eligibility for next year
- We have identified that to join the Test Team, people should get some experience running these sessions. Something that is not hard as someone needs to know how to make a test Chat Agenda and Follow that for the meetings.
- @sirlouen proposed that if a person
ran a Test Chat Meeting, they would then be eligible for a Test Contributor Badge. This year, many people were nominated without any experience, and this is not acceptable
- He also added that
Test Scrubs is another activity that future Test Reps should do and hence Test Scrubs is also promoted for eligibility. For example: 2 test scrubs + 2 meetings will be enough for eligibility for Test Rep position with my proposal
- Test scrubs can be initiated from today, but meetings will be initiated starting January 2026, and we will have a list when people sign up for it.
- @oglekler added that a Team Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. must be experienced with all team activities before applying to become a Team Rep. This will save both the applicant and team any surprises.
- @mosescursor suggested that Team Reps should come from the Test Team members. A position a person gets after cycling through the Test Team processes.
- @oglekler said that Team reps and Team members will have to support the contributors to get to that level. This also calls for contributors interest.
- A simple Q&A
- How can a Person sign up for running a meeting?
After January, during each meeting, the current Team Reps will be asking if anyone wants to run the meeting and we will also post the current “list” in case more than one user has proposed. When they ask, you can raise your hand and they will contact you, put you in the list, and explain all the steps on how to run the meeting. We are starting on January because we need the current reps to get a little more experience before starting to add new members to this
- How can I run a Test Scrub?
You can run one of these whenever you want. You can just contact @sirlouen or any of the current test reps, and we will make sure you learn the basics on how to run a good test scrub
- @sirlouen will then be drafting the new page for reps.
- Remember that now Forum discussions are happening in GitHub, and the discussions will be kept for a week before a decision is made.
Feel free to write there whenever you want, send a new proposal, etc (remember that every proposal has to go first through a meeting like this and then 1 week to discuss in 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/)
- Update on Test Handbook: New pages for Feature & Enhancement Testing (#90), E2E Testing (#91), and Patch Testing Scrubs (#92) are available; contributors can update content via GitHub issues.
- No progress in this regard.
- Again, feel free to comment in any of these three, or if you are brave, send a PR with your proposal for any of the 3.
- For anyone that could be interested in becoming a Test Rep, or Test Team Member(like @sirlouen), who is not a Test Team Rep, but a Test team member), it’s important to engage in these kinds of things and promote things in general. It’s impossible to join the team from a passive position
4. WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
- WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
- Test Team Announcements
- Call for Testing
5. Open Floor
- @sirlouen is working on developing a 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 protocol for the future. This is mainly driven by the many people struggling with testing in the previous scrubs. We have to understand that testing needs some technical skills, but many people have some skills but waste a lot of time trying to set up everything, and they never come back again after the setup.
- @sirlouen is trying to lower the learning curve a little bit by introducing
WordPress Playground Concepts. In these tests we will not be using wordpress-develop or wp-env anymore for testing, except for very complex tickets that need much more deep work.
- These are going to first be tested in the 2 Testing Scrubs scheduled for Tomorrow.
- Release Squad Testing scrub
- and Regular testing scrub
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 and @oglekler for helping review these notes and offering feedback.
#core-test, #full-site-editing, #gutenberg, #make-wordpress-orgupdates, #web
We are in the last lap for the test handbook completion!