PHP Meeting Recap – October 22th

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

    • We started discussing roadmap and priorities for Servehappy. It was not clear for everyone what the current state of the project is. Based on latest information we had, we settled on the fact that Servehappy is still considered a blessed task and that it was just moved out of 5.0 because of time constraints. Current goal is to get it included in a minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. following 5.0, as already suggested by the 5.0 release lead.
    • There’s an immediate need for getting more testers to actually test WSOD protection on real, complex sites with multiple plugins and custom code.
    • We discussed including the WSOD protection fork in the 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. tester 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 so people can easily switch, but this would violate the plugin repository guidelines.
    • We also discussed what it would entail to commit it early into trunk to get it to run on the wordpress.org infrastructure. We should create a #meta ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. to discuss the details of this.

Next week’s meeting

  • Next meeting will take place on Monday, October 29th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
  • Agenda: Continue discussion about getting more people to test WSOD protection.
  • 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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