Performance team meeting summary 4 January 2022

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Focus group updates

Images

@adamsilverstein

GitHub project

  • @adamsilverstein offline
  • @mitogh: Tested current functionality and opened several issues from testing (will clean up today); will begin work on a doc for planning the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of existing images to webp.

Feedback requested

  • N/A

Object caching

@tillkruess @dustinrue

GitHub project

  • @tillkruess: Work in progress on a better Health Check suggestion for object caching, but haven’t pushed anything new yet. Splitting up all WP_Object_Cache improvements in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to make each a distinct issue.

Feedback requested

  • N/A

Site Health

@audrasjb

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Measurement

@wp-source @josephscott

GitHub project

Feedback requested

JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/.

@aristath

GitHub project

Feedback requested

  • N/A

Infrastructure

Feedback requested

Open floor

  • @blogaid asked about testing image changes; @mitogh shared the repo link and @mxbclang confirmed that testing can be done via the 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 and image-related feedback should be shared on the WebP for uploads PR

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