People contributing to Plugins

Help bring contribution tracking to this team.

We don't yet have automated contribution tracking for the Plugins team. Sponsors, recruiters, and team reps can't see who is shipping tracked work — only a list of people who opted in.

You could lead this. Here is the path:

  1. Review the team handbook

    Read it cover to cover. Understand what this team works on, how decisions get made, who the team reps are, and what existing recognition looks like.

    Open the Plugins Handbook

  2. Join the team on Slack

    Most coordination happens in #plugins on the Make WordPress Slack workspace.

    Get a Slack account

  3. Attend one or two team meetings

    Meeting times are in the handbook. Show up, introduce yourself, listen. Do not propose anything yet — just get a sense of the rhythm and the open work.

  4. Propose a metrics discussion

    Once you have earned standing in the team, propose a discussion (in a meeting or async) to define what counts as a tracked contribution. What types of work? What impact levels? Which signals should be tracked, and which intentionally ignored?

  5. Collect, store, and cache the agreed metrics

    Wire the agreed signals into the wp.org data pipeline alongside the existing Trac and GitHub aggregation. Add per-source ingest, indexed storage, and hour-cached aggregation matching the existing pattern.

  6. Wire this page up

    Update inc/contribution-metrics.php to include the team and its new data source, then add the team's slug to TEAMS_WITH_DATA. This page will switch from this guide to the contributor directory automatically.