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<p>The WordPress Test Team has launched a new contributor group aimed at improving collaboration between testers and Core committers.</p>
<p>Announced in a blog post this week by Team Team contributor Manuel Camargo, the new <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/07/23/introducing-wordpress-test-contributors-group/">Test Contributors Group</a> invites volunteers to focus on specific WordPress or Gutenberg components, develop expertise, and build stronger working relationships with those who commit code to Core. Weekly onboarding sessions begin July 25 and are open to anyone, regardless of experience level.</p>
<p>The initiative follows the first <a href="https://www.therepository.email/new-qa-report-aims-to-bridge-the-gap-between-wordpress-testing-and-core-teams">WordPress Quality Analysis Report</a>, published earlier this week, which highlighted low test coverage, declining commit activity, and a growing disconnect between the Test and Core teams.</p>
<p>In his latest post, Camargo points to a recurring pattern: bugs get confirmed and marked “needs patch” without enough technical context, contributors write and test patches in good faith — only for those patches to be rejected later, often due to issues that weren’t visible early on.</p>
<p>“Without a top-level triage, we are wasting the efforts of contributors unnecessarily,” he wrote. “Testing these weak patches, without a code review, could be valid but not ideal and definitely insufficient for further progressing on a ticket.”</p>
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<p>The new group is a response to that frustration. Instead of bouncing between tickets, contributors are encouraged to go deep on a single component, like Media or Comments, and over time become a trusted voice in that area. The hope is that closer, more consistent collaboration with committers will lead to more meaningful contributions and fewer patches getting stuck in limbo.</p>
<p>“Mastering the whole WordPress codebase is an almost impossible task,” Camargo says. “But mastering one focus area is very affordable.”</p>
<p>The goal, Camargo says, is to build enough confidence that committers can trust the process: “The vision of this project is to provide such a degree of quality that any committer could be so confident that the code has gone through enough quality checks that it could be ultimately merged blindly and fearlessly.”</p>
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<p>The group has no formal hierarchy, but contributors are encouraged to help one another and keep communication open. Weekly onboarding sessions will be held every Thursday, starting July 25.</p>
<p>Camargo hopes the first signs of progress will start to show later this year — in time to support the WordPress 6.9 release cycle.</p>
<p><em>Image: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wceu/54569015286/in/album-72177720326409146">Jeroen Rotty</a>.</em></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.therepository.email/new-contributor-group-aims-to-strengthen-collaboration-between-testers-and-core-committers">New Contributor Group Aims to Strengthen Collaboration Between Testers and Core Committers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therepository.email/">The Repository</a>.</p>
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