Multisite Recap for the week of August 14th

Office Hours Recap

The agenda for this office hours meeting was to discuss the format of the 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 roadmap that will be compiled from many of our recent conversations.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @desrosj, @flixos90, @spacedmonkey, @vizkr, @jeremyfelt

Chat Summary:

  • An initial multisite roadmap document has been started. If anyone would like access to edit, please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeremyfelt on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
  • The previous multisite roadmap (2013) was verbose. @jeremyfelt mentioned that it provided the thought process behind a lot of things that were going to become decisions at some point.
  • That the previous roadmap was posted on make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and then lost in the timeline makes discoverability difficult.
  • There should be a specific URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org where the roadmap can be published and evolve over time. Additional (verbose) updates on progress or new initiatives can be posted as posts on make/core and then linked from the roadmap as needed.
  • During the weekly core dev chat, we’ll propose a make.wordpress.org/core/roadmap/ structure under which make.wordpress.org/core/roadmap/multisite/ can exist as well as pages for other components or focuses.
  • It’s also possible we can follow the customizer component’s lead and publish under https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/networks-sites/. Note that this only covers one component rather than the focus.
  • A ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. should be created for everything we plan so that people can help when available.
  • @flixos90 is going to spend some time working on the roadmap document some more to get it closer to the format that we’ve been discussing.

The next office hours will take place on Tuesday 16:00 UTC. An agenda for it will be posted in advance.

Ticket Scrub Recap

The agenda for this ticket scrub was to discuss approaches for better clarifying site statuses, and then have an open floor for further tickets.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @flixos90, @sergey, @ina2n, @afragen, @pmbaldha, @paaljoachim, @desrosj, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt

Chat Summary:

  • #17164 – More elegant handling of site ‘archive’ options for Multisite
  • #39158 – Unify site deactivation process
  • #15801Networknetwork (versus site, blog) Adminadmin (and super admin): Deactivated / Deleted inconsistency
  • These 3 tickets are all related in some way, though deal with different issues around site statuses.
  • The checkboxes at wp-admin/network/site-info.php don’t convey any real information about their meaning or a workflow.
  • Different terms are used in the MS sites list table for network admins (deactivate) and in the site admin (delete).
  • Different error messages are displayed on the front end when a site is archived or deactivated. There should be better documentation for what these mean in the screen help.
  • @flixos90 – “Deactivating should be called deactivating everywhere”, “we should only use the term Delete when it really is delete”
  • It seems that #39158 is a ticket about workflow and unification of deactivate/delete. #15801 is a ticket about terminology.
  • Priorities via @flixos90:
    • change Deleted to Deactivated where it’s not actually Deleted
    • Figure out what all these actions do exactly.
    • Document what these actions do
  • We need to support these workflows in the sites endpoint.
  • #40736 – Ensure that get_blog_count() and get_user_count() return an integer. Specifically—Can the return type be safely changed without issue and/or should we deprecate get_blog_count() in favor of get_site_count(). We aren’t too worried about changing the return type as this function doesn’t appear to be used much outside of core.
  • #41344 – Secure Email Integration. We agreed to look at this ticket next week.
  • #40764 – Multisite theme update not showing new version number. This ticket came up right at the end and can be covered next week.

The next ticket scrub will take place on Monday 17:00 UTC. An agenda for it will be posted in advance.

If you were unable to attend one of these meetings but have feedback, please share your thoughts in the comments on this post. In case there’s a need for further discussion we will ensure to make time for it in one of next week’s chats. See you next week!

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