Exciting News: The WordPress 7.2 Release Squad is assembled!

• Release Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.: Matt Mullenweg
• Release Coordination: David Baumwald
• Tech Leads: George Mamadashvili, Peter Wilson
• Default Theme Design Lead: Henrique Iamarino
• Default Theme Dev Leads: Maggie Cabrera, Carolina Nymark
• Triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Leads: Jb Audras, Eshaan Dabasiya
• Test Leads: Md Noruzzaman, Jina Parekh, Erick Wambua

As with the 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, and 7.1 release cycles, WordPress 7.2 will continue the approach of forming a smaller, focused Release Squad. This streamlined structure places more emphasis on collaboration with the various Make Team Reps, who are encouraged to help coordinate efforts from within their respective teams. The goals are to reduce the overhead on the Release Squad while still ensuring each Make Team’s contributions and priorities are represented throughout the cycle, and to reduce overlap between a Make 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. and that team’s Release Squad Leads. Noteworthy Contributors will be captured from Team Reps towards the end of the release cycle.

The number of volunteers far exceeded the available squad roles, so we selected folks whose experience and focus best aligned with the needs of the 7.2 release. If you weren’t selected this time, your contributions are still incredibly valuable, and there are plenty of ways to stay involved throughout the release cycle, including testing, bug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs, triage, documentation, and more. Every contribution helps move WordPress forward, and we’re grateful for your continued participation.

While the Default Theme (aka Twenty Twenty-Seven) leads are included in the squad above, it’s worth resurfacing the Twenty Twenty-Seven: Team Announcement post from earlier this year. In addition to the design and development leads, the team includes a dedicated lead mentor role (Juanfra Aldasoro) and an intentional focus on creating structured, supported opportunities for new contributors to get involved in the default theme effort.

Big thanks to everyone who volunteered for the release squad, and heartfelt appreciation to everyone helping move WordPress 7.2 forward through testing, triage, documentation, bug scrubs, and more. Your efforts make this release possible, and there’s a lot to be excited about as WordPress 7.2 comes together!

Props to @jorbin for reviewing this post and @jorbin, @desrosj, @annezazu, and @4thhubbard for helping assemble the 7.2 release squad.

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