Office Hours Recap
The agenda for this office hours meeting was to take a look at progress on the multisite 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 and to continue discussing the best approach to checking for the existence of a wp_blogmeta database table (See #37923).
The meeting’s chat log
Attendees: @flixos90, @desrosj, @stephdau, @dac, @johnbillion, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt
Chat Summary:
- During the core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat, everyone was open to the roadmap being published at
make.wordpress.org/core/roadmaps/multisite. The REST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. team is also interested in posting a roadmap under that structure.
- Quite a bit of progress has been made by @flixos90 so far on the multisite roadmap document.
- A good way to contribute to the roadmap now is to read through critically and make comments/suggestions on the direction and content.
- Everyone is free to make changes/comments. Ping 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 if you would like access.
- @johnbillion is going to add some items related to multisite administration.
- More needs to be built out around multisite’s bootstrap and the future of “global context” above the level of network (versus site, blog).
- There was some discussion on what an objective on the roadmap for multisite’s bootstrap may be. Everyone seems to agree that “increasing stability and testability” of the bootstrap is a good objective.
- There should be a general section at the end that covers some things that don’t necessarily fit as part of the main roadmap at this time. That can be considered “a summary to encourage discussion/contribution even if what you want isn’t on the roadmap.”
- Quite a bit of ground was covered on #37923 as to whether the existence of a
wp_blogmeta table (after upgrade) should be stored as a main network option, as an option on every network, or in a new place entirely.
- @spacedmonkey brought up concerns about the performance issues of loading an option from a different network. During multisite’s bootstrap, all of the current network’s options are loaded into memory. Storing in a single place would result in an extra DB query/cache lookup.
- @flixos90 and @jeremyfelt prefer (so far) storing the data as an option on the main network. The idea that a global setting storage may exist one day makes it tempting to treat this data as global now.
- A next step is to lookup more possible “global context” data that could be stored. @spacedmonkey brought up global terms and ms-files as two immediate options. Brainstorming should continue via chat and on the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. (#37923).
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 review 4.9 ticket progress.
The meeting’s chat log
Attendees: @flixos90, @desrosj, @sergey, @paaljoachim, @jeremyfelt, @spacedmonkey
Chat Summary:
- #29684 – Had a lengthy discussion on the possibilities of this ticket. Chatted through whether a networks main site ID should be stored as a network option. For the time being, let’s stick with not storing the data anywhere.
There will be no ticket scrub Monday 17:00 UTC. A schedule and agenda for the next ticket scrub will be posted next week.
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!
#4-9, #multisite, #network-sites, #summary
