Sponsored BoF: Cultivating Quality in Open Source: Modern Strategies for Shared Res...
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Maintains quality across WordPress.org’s 55,000+ plugins and 13,000+ themes by combining telemetry (10M sites of data), a dedicated QA team (historically six, now ~4–5), and tooling: nightly compatibility tests against ~100 popular plugins, a QIT runner for pluggable scans, Playwright + Axe for accessibility, Lighthouse for performance. Builds LLM-assisted pipelines that push manual cleanup from ~30% to 90% automation, runs bug hunts/Testathons, and tracks change‑failure rate.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction to birds of a feather session
- 1:03Full-stack quality shift
- 3:11Open source diversity challenges
- 6:21WordPress plugin testing
- 9:12Plugin usage telemetry
- 10:59Chromebook controller testing
- 13:07Reducing test setup burden
- 17:16Motivating bug testers
- 19:01Testing in dev workflows
- 21:50Gamified bug hunts
- 23:15Onboarding via test contributions
- 25:00Specs versus real-world UX
- 27:47AI for discussion summaries
- 30:11AI for project intelligence
- 31:26Quality metrics dashboards
- 33:17Quality with DORA/Core 4
- 35:25PR performance checks
- 36:52Peer performance incentives
- 37:34Closing discussion
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