Office Hours Recap

No office hours meeting took place this week.

Next meeting

The next office hours will take place on October 3rd, 2017, 16:00 UTC. Its agenda will be to get the 4.9 enhancements ready to be merged before BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process., and then coordinate remaining work on 4.9 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. tickets.

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Scrub Recap

The agenda for this ticket scrub was to look through 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 tickets without a response.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @afragen, @flixos90, @schlessera, @spacedmonkey

Chat Summary:

• The issue with the suggestion in #41443 is that wpmu_validate_blog_signup() is supposed to validate new sites submitted by regular users, not by administrators, so that function would not be applicable for usage on the New Site networknetwork (versus site, blog) adminadmin (and super admin) page. However, some restrictions for new user-submitted sites do not apply to admin-created sites, so these restrictions should be reviewed and possibly adjusted to work more similarly to each other.
• #41685 is a very early ticket, since it requires the site metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. 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. and related blogmeta database table in order to be worked on. It was agreed on that it would generally makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). sense to store site database versions in the new table instead of an entirely separate table. However, since these versions are not used anywhere in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and since it is questionable whether the blog_versions table can be removed for backward-compatibility reasons, this still needs a deeper discussion once site meta is actually part of core.
• #41936 was figured out to be a minor bug with the new get_main_site_id() not taking the possibly already set WP_Network::$blog_id property into account. This should definitely be fixed for 4.9. The current 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. by @spacedmonkey moves the logic from the function to the WP_Network class method, which is not preferable, but might end up being the only way to accomplish the goal without running into an infinite loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. issue. @flixos90 will try to find a better way to fix the issue, but if nobody finds one, the current patch is solid enough to go in. This can happen last minute though, as this will be a bug-fix and does not need to be merged before beta.

Next meeting

The next ticket scrub will take place on October 2nd, 2017, 17:00 UTC. Its agenda will be reviewing the 4.9 enhancements and coordinating who works on the possibly required changes so that another review can happen during the office hours a day later.

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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