This Week at WordPress.org (October 18, 2021)

Each week we’ll highlight news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers.

Community

• Tuesday Training: Why is diversity important — to WordPress and YOUR local community?
• Meetup Organizer Newsletter: October 2021.
• Legal protections for organizers.

Core

New:

• WordPress 5.9 Feature Go/No-Go | October 14, 2021. 🏁
• Check out & contribute to the updated Gutenberg Examples

Ongoing:

• Proposal for a Performance Team. 🙋‍♂️
• Allow Themes to surface specific Patterns from the Patterns Directory. 🎨
• What’s new in Gutenberg 11.7. (October 13th) 🟦
• Submit Full Site Editing questions by Oct 27th. 📅(With the Go/No Go session happening this week ahead of WordPress 5.9’s release in December 2021, let’s use this time to dig into any general questions you all might have around Full Site Editing!) 👈
• Proposal: Gutenberg Developer Hours series of events. Invite WordPress developers to meet with three other developers to discuss Gutenberg development questions, code, ideas, and approaches. Follow-up with video and resources. 🙋‍♀️

Design

New:

• Site Editing iA concepts – Part 2

Ongoing:

• Site editing IA concepts: How to surface and access new features. 👀

Mobile

• Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 18.5. 🧪
• Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 18.5. 🧪

Polyglots

• Polyglots Monthly Newsletter: October 2021.

Project

• Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool. 5️⃣

Test

• Proposal: Migrate e2e to Playwright! 🎭

Themes

• Theme tools and requirements recap. 🧰

Training

• A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team. 🙋‍♀️