Site Health January Review

This is a summary post for Site Health meetings held in January.

🎯 Focuses for 2020

A few focuses have been outlined for WordPress 5.4, and they are currently on track.

Surfacing the Site Health status with a dashbaord widget has its initial iteration committed, and aims to help inform and educate users and continue one of our purposes of helping keep websites running as smoothly as possible and being good internet citizens.

Another goal is to get compatibility checks for PHP version into themes, which is also in the review phase and is looking on schedule for this years roadmap.

Improving the Recovery Mode is our third focus. Current tickets focus on alternate ways to access recovery mode, and improving its performance in general.

🎫 Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. to align our selves

We also held a short-circuit ticket triage on Friday January 31, 2020, 16:00 UTC to make sure all the current planned tickets for the next upcoming WordPress release, 5.4, were on track and moving as expected.

This let us re-prioritize some that were no longer required, as they were superseded by other tasks that were already completed, and also gave better insights into remaining tickets that needed some direction.

🙌 Get involved

If you would like to improve the Site Health component, we’re always up for new ideas.

Here’s how you can get involved:

• Join our meetings – Next meeting is on Monday 16:00 UTC in the #core-site-health channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (a Slack account is required)
• Write up your idea as a new Trac ticket
• Help us with our current Trac tickets

We look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting!

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