There’s something that I say to WordPress contributors frequently, and that is there are a lot of yeses. If a different solution solves the same problem but with less time or effort, it’s worth taking a second look with less time or effort. It helps you to confirm your understanding, and it also gives you the chance to pair other solutions with the problem and goals you outlined in step one. So organizing a big discussion into main points is a really good practice for the people you’re summarizing it for and yourself. Step three is to summarize the discussion and post a decision if possible. So if you have an opportunity to start doing this in text first and level your way up to in person, that’s my recommendation. And generally, hosting discussions in an in-person or voice call or zoom call kind of way is hard. If you’re hosting a discussion in person, like in a town hall format, this can be hard. Wherever you’re hosting it, state the problem, state your idea for the solution and ask for what you missed. The venue will be different for different discussions, but you see a lot of these on team blogs or within the actual tickets where work is being done. You have to take a little time to figure out what problem you’re solving with the solution you’re suggesting, any goals that it relates to, and then figure out what the bare minimum best outcome would be and what the wildest dreams magic wand waving outcome would be. This is, by the way, just the hardest step out there. If you, like me, think that a healthy tension of collaborative disagreement can be useful when approached thoughtfully, then this quick start guide is for you. If we never saw anyone pointing out an area that wasn’t quite right, there would probably be something wrong. So there’s a lot of stuff available to disagree about. And there are huge numbers of people contributing to WordPress or any other open source project you want to name. Frankly, sometimes it seems like the second you have more than one cook in your kitchen, you’re going to get some disagreements. Some things make disagreements worse, like imbalance of information, lack of showing your work, and sometimes just “too many cooks in the kitchen,” to use a regional phrase. And before you know it, you’ve got some disagreements. The more opinions you have, the more likely people don’t see eye to eye. Here we go!įor anyone who has ever organized something, whether it’s a social event, a school project, or an annual family gathering, you know that there are many different opinions. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of some of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project and the community around it, as well as get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. WordPress 5.8 Development Cycle Transcript Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod References Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to either written or as a voice recording. In this episode, Josepha talks about forming opinions and decision-making in the WordPress project. To Agree, disagree, and everything in-between.
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