It’s time again to nominate the Test Team Reps who will serve for the next 12 months!
This Call for Nominations is open until 2026-09-12 00:00. Please leave a comment identifying your nominee(s) before then.
For a quick refresher of 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. roles across the project, please see the Team Reps post on Team Updates.
The Role
Reps in the Test Team perform primary and secondary (or backup) duties to help support team chats, make updates to the team’s blog and handbook, remove blockers, keep a pulse on team objectives, and promote testing opportunities within the WordPress project.
As a reminder, Reps are not called “team leads” for a reason. While people elected as Team Reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the Team Rep role is designed to change hands regularly.
Test Team Rep duties include:
- Write bi-weekly Test Team Update posts, and post to Team Updates page.
- Write Monthly Month in Test posts, and post to Make WordPress Test.
- Write agenda for bi-weekly
<test-chat> sessions (example).
- Run alternating weekly
<test-chat> (example) and <Patch Testing> (example) sessions in #core-test.
- Write
<test-chat> session recaps, and post to Make WordPress Test.
- Run Voice Chat sessions in #core-test every 1st Thursday of every month.
- Help new contributors with their WordPress Testing related queries.
- Help raise awareness for testing needs, especially for upcoming releases.
- Raise issues or red flags that other teams should be aware of or discussing.
These duties are shared between the two Reps (see Rep Responsibilities on the Team Rep page).
Qualifications
Candidates for the Test Team Rep position should be active, reliable, and trusted team members who understand WordPress testing and are willing to represent, support, and grow the team to better serve the WordPress open source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.
Test Team Reps serve a one-year term and should commit approximately 2–4 hours per week. To be eligible, nominees must have been active in the Test Team within the previous 12 months by completing one or a combination of:
- Leading at least 3 Test Team chats, including published recaps.
- Managing at least 6 Patch Testing Scrubs.
A combination may also qualify; for example, Leading 2 Test Team chats and managing 2 Patch Testing Scrubs would also qualify as an active member.
These eligibility requirements apply to contributions made within the 12 months prior to the nomination period. Not all Test Team Reps have to be technical experts, but they should have a good understanding of the testing processes and be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members. For not tech savvy members, being able to lead Test Team chats is a good way to demonstrate communication skills, while for technical members, managing Patch Testing Scrubs is a good way to demonstrate technical expertise.
How Test Team Elections Work
Step 1: Call for Nominations 📣
The first step is to reach out to the community with a Call for Nominations (this post!)
Please nominate in the comments of this post. You can write a comment as simple as “I nominate @the_persons_username.” Self-nominations are also welcome by leaving a comment such as “I nominate myself.”
Private nominations can be submitted by contacting @mosescursor or @nikunj8866 in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
If you’ve been nominated, please accept or decline the nomination as a reply to the same comment.
⏰ The deadline for nominations is 2026-09-12 00:00
After the deadline, each nominee will be contacted to discuss qualifications and to confirm their acceptance of the nomination.
If you get nominated, please do not feel like you have to say “yes”. It’s okay for you to decline the nomination if you don’t feel like this is the right fit for any reason. “Thank you, but no thank you!” 😉
Step 2: Vote for Team Reps 🗳
An election will happen only if there are more than two accepted nominations within the nomination period; otherwise the nominees will become the new Test Team Reps.
If held, the election will be conducted by an anonymous poll. The poll will remain open for 2 weeks.
Step 3: Announce Team Reps 🎉
Once uncontested nominations have been accepted, or in the event of an election the voting period has passed, the new Test Team Reps will be announced in a post (example).
Time to Nominate!
Are you ready? It’s time to nominate folks to serve as our Test Team Reps for the new term! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments.
Props to @nikunj8866 @oglekler @sirlouen for pre publish review of this post.
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