Felix Arntz 9:10 am on August 16, 2018
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PHP Meeting Recap – August 13th

This recap is a summary of our previous 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.

You can find this meeting’s chat log here.

Chat Summary

  • The content of the Update PHP page was further discussed. There is a Google document available where @alexdenning has been working on revised copy. It is open for comments if you have suggestions.
  • As a reminder, the goal is to shorten the copy by removing unnecessary technical details and thus more positively encouraging the user to update. At the same time, we must not omit that there may be issues and, most importantly, we have to educate about the prerequisite steps necessary to roll back in case a problem occurs that cannot be fixed quickly.
  • As most problems actually need technical assistance to solve, we should not go into too much detail there, but point out that they might want to get help from a developer in such a case. However, basic suggestions as finding a replacement 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 in case a plugin is incompatible should remain, as we still want to encourage users who would be unable or unwilling to hire a third person.
  • At the same time, with the improvements being made in #44458 we can actively encourage the update because, even in case of errors, the site owner will still be able to log in to the site to provide short-term fixes at least.
  • Over the course of the meeting, we made a couple comments on the document with the items we discussed. Please refer to the Google doc linked above for details.
  • We also briefly picked up discussion on visual assets for the page. While that should preferably happen after the copy is in place, it doesn’t hurt thinking about it already, especially since some pieces might be relatively independent of what the final copy will be like. These are ideas we have been considering:
    • Timeline of PHP versions and their end of lifes (dynamic including the passed PHP version, or not)
    • Graphic of the relation between server, PHP, website, WordPress (possibly also including plugins and themes)

Next week’s meeting

  • Next meeting will take place on Monday, August 20th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
  • Agenda: Further discuss the Update PHP page copy and visual assets to use.
  • 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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