[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33993: Add Links for additional props on about.php after updating.

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#33993: Add Links for additional props on about.php after updating.
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 Reporter:  scotthack       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |    Version:  4.3.1
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 Upon updating WordPress, a user is presented with the "Welcome to
 WordPress X.X" or the about.php page that has tabs that also link to the
 credits.php page and the freedoms.php page.  I recently started following
 development in Slack.  Reading new tickets, watching committed tickets and
 I've been really amazed by all of the hard work that goes into the
 project.  I've been sucked into reading trac tickets and comments and
 looking at the various patches etc and I'm NOT a coder.  I do however run
 the monthly meetup in my city and I do my best to teach from the middle
 and share what I learn and what features developers need to be made aware
 of.  That said, the average person isn't following along in Slack and they
 have no idea how many tickets have been impacted in a release, how many
 lines of code were added, how many were deleted, how many new files were
 created for organization...

 I propose that the about.php add an addition tab that has a "Project
 Progress" tab that will then link to the
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph showing how many tickets were
 recently closed and how many are still outstanding.  How many lines of
 code were actually impacted by being added and deleted, etc.  A lot of
 times I tell my Meetup attendees that there was "a ton of things done
 under the hood" that made the code base better/faster/etc.  But having
 numbers I think would help people really get a feel for the progress that
 is made during a release.

 I'd also think it would be neat if trac can give up the info on the ticket
 that was oldest that was closed during the release.  Just today I saw
 something that was 6 years old that was closed.  That is pretty cool to
 see, and a few days ago I saw something that was submitted and then
 committed all within 2 hours it seemed like.  What is the fastest ticket
 closed.  Some of those stats would be nice to see ESPECIALLY on releases
 that don't have a whizbang feature plugin being merged into them.

 PS - Thanks to everyone who works tirelessly to make the project better.

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