PHP Meeting Recap – September 11th

This recap is a summary of this week’s PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend.

The meeting’s chat log.

Attendees: @brainfork @dnavarrojr @espellcaste @flixos90 @joostdevalk @jdgrimes @milindmore22 @nerrad @pbearne @schlessera @sergey @sobak @vizkr

Chat Summary

The agenda for this week was to review the current progress and plan how to proceed in the upcoming weeks.

• @flixos90 shared the outcome of the meeting with the #marketing team that had happened some days ago (read the full chat log): The marketing team has started work on the copy for the planned Servehappy page, based on the drafts the PHP team created over the past couple weeks. A Trello board has been set up, and the actual text is being worked on in a Google doc. The team has set a deadline for September 15th. As of writing this post, the document has been completed. They also offered their help in the future for other things that the page would need, such as graphics and illustrations. A special thanks to the marketing team for their efforts!
• The next PHP meeting will be used to review and discuss the document in detail and figure out questions or suggestions, if any. Anyone from the marketing team is also very welcome to join this chat in particular!
• It was decided that once the document is considered to be in a good shape, it is time to pitch the idea of the suggested Servehappy page further. In particular more leadership people need to be convinced of the efforts in order to successfully proceed. The page must be officially affiliated with wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, whether it is hosted as part of it or at a separate location. This is a requirement so that it is eligible for being linked to from WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. itself.
• @schlessera suggested creating a proposal document that describes the problem the team is trying to solve, the goals the solution should meet, the current state of things and what is needed to get this launched. This will provide clear documentation and can be used in addition to the page document itself to pitch the idea. With this, the team hopes to be able to at least get a “conditional” buy-in.
• It was discussed whether the page should be part of wordpress.org or whether it should be hosted as a separate website, such as servehappy.com or servehappy.org (in either case it should be an official part of WordPress).
  • Having it as a separate site would perhaps make it interesting for other PHP projects as well.
  • Having it as a separate site would give more flexibility on what the overall page layout and design should look like while with .org, it would obviously need to integrate.
  • Having it as a separate site would give parity with something like browsehappy.com, however the Servehappy content would be much more specific to WordPress, so it may be better suited as part of wordpress.org.
  • Having it as a separate site would allow to create separate pages for the bits and pieces if it makes sense, and guide visitors through them.
  • In the end nobody had a heavy preference for either, so where to host this can be approached rather flexibly, as long as it is based on a clear decision by the core leadership. The core leads may very well also have their own preferences for this.
• In order to bring more attention to the efforts, it was decided that the best way to start once both the copy and proposal documents are ready will be to first publish the proposal on the make blogblog (versus network, site) and then bring it up at the weekly core dev-chat. The post should be available in advance so that it gives people time to prepare. It may also be useful to schedule regular update slots in the dev-chat meetings, in order to provide information on where the project is at and maintain traction.
• The proposal document should also contain all suggested integration points with core.
  • What feature needs to integrate with the page?
  • Where should the link point to?
  • Is dynamic content transported through the link needed? If so, which GET parameters would the page need to support?
• Using GET parameters for some dynamic parts of the page would give the visitor a better feeling their specific issue is addressed by the page. However, it needs to be ensured that all data passed is not controversial regarding privacy in any way. It needs to be entirely anonymous.

Next week’s meeting

The next meeting will take place on September 18th, 2017, 18:00 UTC as always in #core-php, and its agenda will be to review and discuss the page document the marketing team has worked on, as described above. If you have suggestions about this but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account. See you next week!

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