PHP Meeting Recap – December 18th

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 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.

You can find this meeting’s chat log here.

Chat Summary

• After asking for feedback last week, we got told that our weekly recaps are valuable to some readers, so we keep writing them. We removed the attendees’ list because it takes a substantial amount of time to complete, with little added value.
• Due to the upcoming holidays, we are skipping the meetings for December 25nd and January 1st. Next meeting will be held on January 8th.
• Regarding pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party testing, we reasserted that we’ll still recommend PHP Compatibility Checker for now, even though Tide (Team Home | GitHub) is on the horizon. As long as Tide is not open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. and hasn’t been properly integrated into the WordPress ecosystem, it just isn’t a valid option.
• As we’ve finished the content for the page, we are now discussing the overall strategy of moving forward with the project:
  • produce preliminary deliverables (site mockup, adminadmin (and super admin) dialog mockup)
  • create/update (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.) TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.(s) to make sure we have a clear set of goals, a proper roadmap and a timeline
  • raise awareness through dev-chat meetings and news portals to get feedback and buy-in
• Ask a precise question to get a precise answer: “Is that something worth pursuing within 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/ scope?”
• We plan to discuss the project in dev-chat on January 10th. By then, we expect to have the deliverables ready.
• Two tickets that currently track the progress: Trac 41191 (admin notice) and Meta Trac 2996 (external servehappy page).

Next week’s meeting

• Next meeting will take place on Monday, January 8th, 2018 at 16:00 UTC in #core-php (Note: We are skipping two meetings because of Christmas and New Year’s Day).
• Agenda: Discuss latest progress and our approach for the dev-chat meeting on January 10th.
• 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.

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