Multisite Office Hours Recap (June 16, 2015)

Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site office hours are held every Tuesday at 20:00 UTC in #core-multisite.

Today’s chat log
Overall 4.3 Release Objectives

Last week’s objectives:

• New tickets to address found issues in flow. These issues logged in the screen sweep spreadsheet.
• Iterations on `WP_Site` and `WP_Network`. Discussion around iterations.
• #22383 and #32503 committed.
• Write post, generate discussion around HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. in multisite.

Today’s meeting agenda:

• Progress on capturing, observing, ticketing flows.
• Next steps to combined domain/path UIUI User interface – Add New site flow #31240
• `WP_Network`, `WP_Site` progress – @jjj
• Open floor for tickets, thoughts, etc…

Topic Details:

Progress on capturing, observing, ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. flows:

Tickets #32647, #32645, #32643, #32644
chat log

• @earnjam added iPad flows.
• @sharonaustin captured a bunch of flow data/notes and will be posting it to Make/Flow soon.
• Some great progress was made over the weekend during the WCPHL contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.. #32643 was opened and committed as an example of the process. #32644, #32645, #32646, and #32647 were also opened.
• @earnjam is going to take the lead on getting #32647 and #32645 ready for next week as part of a My Sites overhaul.
• The bugs from #32643, #32644, and #32646 are likely found in other places throughout coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. as well.
• We should collaborate on a flow/design/adminadmin (and super admin) ui/networknetwork (versus site, blog) admin ui contributor doc for WCEU with some basic “here’s what we need” guidelines. @helen @boren @sheri

Objectives for next week: #32645, #32647 committed. More flow, more tickets, more observations. 🙂

Next steps to combined domain/path UI

Tickets: #31240, #22383, #32434, #32503
chat log

• #22383, #32434, #32503 are all committed and closed. 👍
• Originally #31240 seemed kind of off the table for 4.3, but it seems very possible now. @jeremyfelt will take a shot at getting that prepped for next week.
• Once these are both in, we should start having some validation questions pretty soon.

Objective for next week: Patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. and/or commit for #31240.

Progress on `WP_Network`, `WP_Site`

Tickets: #31985, #32450, #32504, #31148
chat log

• @earnjam is going to open a ticket to track `WP_Site_Query` and take a stab at that.
• We need to iterate some more on the other existing patches.
• Completely comfortable with progress on this continuing through 4.3 for a target of 4.4 early. It would also be nice just to get it in now. 🙂

Objective for next week: Iterations, progress, discussion.

Other items:

• @jeremyfelt owes an HTTPS in multisite post still. Maybe by tomorrow?
• No other items. A pretty quiet chat today.

See you next week!

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