Aaron Jorbin: My May And June in WordPress - Digital Media Marketing, and Technology

My May and June in WordPress focused on helping get 6.8.2 set up for success and gardening old trac tickets.

This was my first time putting together the squad for a minor release that I wasn’t going to be a member of. I coordinated with a few active committers, team reps, and the 6.8.0 release coordinators to review the folks who volunteered to help lead a maintenance release. The first step was identifying from the volunteers one person who could be the primary lead. This involved reaffirming that people could still make the commitment. Once the first person was identified, we looked for folks to compliment them and I confirmed their availability. After that, I announced it and the 6.8.2 team got off to a quick start getting ready for the next release of WordPress.

I’ve also been spending some time looking at some long neglected tickets. In order to not feel stuck, I’ve moved between a few reports on trac. The close report (which is now under 200), one looking at tickets with a patch that haven’t received attention in a long time and the ancient report. Over half the tickets I touched during this span of time are now closed.

Another task I did was once again participate in the Share Your Pride photo drive. I added a total of 32 photos though not all are in the photo drive. One of my favorites is used as the featured image on this post

By the numbers

During these two months, I contributed to 131 tickets on trac, made 4 commits to core, received 10 props, put together the squad for a minor release, wrote 1 make/core post, added 32 photos to the photo directory, and led one bug scrub.

I had 20 sponsors these months: Jeffrey Paul, philipjohn, Zach Stepek, Keanan Koppenhaver, George Mamadashvili, Russell Heimlich , Austin Ginder, Adam Silverstein, Felix Arntz, Jonathan Desrosiers, Brian Coords, mklute101, Tim Nash, Jay Hoppie, Dan Knauss, Kevin Cristiano, Kinsta, Jake Spurlock, Andy Fragen and one who wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you for believing in and supporting my contributions to Open Source.