Wp 71 Dev Note Issues

WordPress 7.1 documentation issue importer

Use this skill only in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository.

Source files

Read:

• 7-1-dev-notes/tickets.json
• 7-1-dev-notes/issue-template.md
• 7-1-dev-notes/activity-log.jsonl

Treat tickets.json as the source of truth. Do not reclassify tickets and do not rewrite its summaries.

Eligible tickets

Create GitHub issues only for tickets whose classification is exactly one of:

• dev-note
• misc-dev-note
• field-guide

Never create an issue for:

• exclude
• a missing or unknown classification
• a ticket whose create_issue value is explicitly false

If create_issue conflicts with classification, stop and report the conflicting ticket instead of guessing.

Authentication and repository checks

Before doing anything:

1. Confirm the current repository is WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker.
2. Confirm GitHub CLI is authenticated with gh auth status.
3. Confirm these repository labels exist:
   • 7.1
   • dev-note
   • misc-dev-note
   • field-guide
4. Do not create, rename, or delete labels automatically.
5. If any required label is missing, stop before creating issues and report it.

Find existing issues

Load all open and closed issues in WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker carrying the 7.1 label.

Use a command equivalent to:

gh issue list \
  --repo WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker \
  --state all \
  --label "7.1" \
  --limit 1000 \
  --json number,title,body,url,labels

For every eligible Trac ticket, consider an existing GitHub issue a match when any of the following is true:

1. Its title contains the exact token #<Trac-ID> and begins with [7.1].
2. Its body contains the exact Trac URL from trac_url.
3. Its body contains a clearly identified Trac reference in the form #<Trac-ID>.

Match the Trac ID as a complete number. For example, ticket #123 must not match #1234.

Search both open and closed issues. A closed matching issue still counts as an existing issue.

If more than one existing issue matches the same Trac ticket:

• do not create another issue;
• record the ticket as a duplicate conflict;
• report all matching GitHub issue numbers and URLs.

Do not reopen or edit existing issues unless the user explicitly requests that separately.

Create missing issues

For each eligible ticket without a matching GitHub issue:

Title

Use this exact format:

[7.1] #<Trac-ID> <Trac title>

Example:

[7.1] #65164 Responsive styles for blocks

Use the ticket and title values from tickets.json without paraphrasing the Trac title.

Body

Use 7-1-dev-notes/issue-template.md as the body template.

Populate the template only from fields present in the ticket object. Common fields include:

• ticket
• title
• trac_url
• summary
• classification
• documentation_rationale
• component
• type
• focuses
• keywords
• affected_audience
• related_trac_tickets
• github_pull_requests
• changesets
• confidence

When replacing template placeholders:

• support placeholders written as {{field_name}};
• render arrays as Markdown bullet lists;
• render an empty array as None identified;
• preserve URLs exactly;
• do not invent missing relationships, pull requests, changesets, audiences, or explanations;
• if a required placeholder cannot be populated, stop for that ticket and report the missing field;
• ensure no unresolved {{...}} placeholders remain before issue creation.

Write the rendered body to a temporary file and pass it with --body-file. Do not modify issue-template.md.

Labels

Apply exactly:

• 7.1
• the ticket's classification label:
  • dev-note
  • misc-dev-note
  • field-guide

Do not apply exclude.

Create the issue with a command equivalent to:

gh issue create \
  --repo WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker \
  --title "$title" \
  --body-file "$body_file" \
  --label "7.1" \
  --label "$classification"

Process tickets one at a time. Continue after an individual failure, but collect every failure for the final report.

Dry run

When the user requests a dry run:

• do all validation and duplicate checks;
• render and validate proposed titles, bodies, and labels;
• do not create or modify GitHub issues;
• do not append to activity-log.jsonl;
• report what would be created, skipped, or blocked.

Never infer that a real import is authorized from a request to inspect, preview, validate, or dry-run the data.

Activity log

After a real import, append one JSON object as a single new line to:

7-1-dev-notes/activity-log.jsonl

Never overwrite previous lines.

Include:

• event: github_issue_import
• tickets_json_updated_at: value from tickets.json metadata
• import_run_at: current ISO 8601 datetime
• tickets_total: total tickets in tickets.json
• eligible_tickets: number with an issue-creating classification
• github_issues_created
• created_issue_ticket_ids
• created_issue_numbers
• created_issue_urls
• tickets_skipped_by_classification
• classification_skipped_ticket_ids
• existing_github_issues_skipped
• existing_issue_ticket_ids
• existing_issue_numbers
• duplicate_conflicts
• duplicate_conflict_ticket_ids
• failed
• failed_ticket_ids

Use ticket IDs as numbers, not strings.

Do not count exclude tickets as existing-issue skips. They belong only in tickets_skipped_by_classification.

Final report

At the end, report:

• eligible tickets checked;
• issues created;
• tickets skipped because a matching issue already existed;
• tickets skipped because of classification;
• duplicate conflicts;
• failures;
• created issue URLs.

If nothing was created, say so explicitly.

Safety and integrity rules

• Never create an issue before completing the duplicate search.
• Never create issues in another repository.
• Never use the 7.0 label; this workflow is for WordPress 7.1.
• Never alter ticket classifications.
• Never delete, close, reopen, or edit existing issues as part of this skill.
• Never fabricate issue body content.
• Never write an import log entry during a dry run.