Multisite Kickoff for 4.6 Chat Summary

This is a summary of the multisite kickoff chat from April 21st.

Attendees: @ocean90, @jjj, @streetlamp, @websupporter, @johnbillion, @richardtape, @ipstenu, @mikelking, @arippberger, @tubiz

A refresh for weekly meetings

There is a new time for weekly office hours: Tuesday 16:00 UTC

The agenda for those weekly office hours will look something like this:

  • Address blockers and share status on bigger initiatives.
  • Walk through 1-5 multisite focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

And a more casual bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub will happen in #core-multisite every week on Thursdays. Thursday 19:00 UTC. Bring bugs! 🐛

Tickets already in progress for 4.6

  • #35791WP_Site_Query – and a multitude of tickets that will ready once this goes in.
  • #15800 – Adding tabs to “Edit Site” pages in the networknetwork (versus site, blog) adminadmin (and super admin)
  • #34941 – A more testable 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 bootstrap process

Other tickets of interest for 4.6

  • #16001 – Invited but not activated users can get lost, also related #31127
  • #34316 – User status inconsistent between single-site and multisite
  • #15691 – Network admin should have its own settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.
  • #36546 – User marked as spam can log in
  • #24617 – Spammed users should not be able to reset their password
  • #30175 – In multisite, on a site with only subscribers, wp_dropdown_users returns empty string
  • #31746 – get_blogs_of_user() can be very slow when a user is a member of thousands of sites

Many of these tickets are looking for owners. If you have interest in patching, testing, etc…, please leave feedback on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. and/or stop by during office hours. See you tomorrow at 16:00 UTC! 🌮

Chat log

#4-6, #multisite, #networks-sites