Hosting Meeting Notes: February 15, 2017

Here’s the summary of our fifth meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1600 UTC (Slack archive).

Promoting WordCamps

• @calebb’s post went live on Friday.
  • https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2017/02/10/building-a-machine-readable-list-of-wordpress-events/
• @samuelsidler dropped in to encourage us to loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. in #meta and #marketing on future efforts.

Distributed Unit TestingUnit test Unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code—sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures—are tested to determine whether they are fit for use.

• @octalmage‘s post still needs review.
  • @boogah will work on getting it edited and approved by Friday.
• @octalmage is ideating on REST endpoints and Swagger style documentation.
  • Will get code up on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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. soon so he can get feedback.
• @voldemortensen is planning on writing Pub/Sub functionality to scrape the output of PHPUnit.

“Best Practices” Documentation

• @aaroncampbell quickly reviewed @voldemortensen‘s “Call for Documentation” post and published it during the meeting.
  • https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2017/02/15/call-for-best-practices-documentation/

Community Summit

• Work still needs to be done on the “Call for Topics” post.
  • @mikeschroder and @boogah committed to getting something up in last week’s meeting.
  • They’ll try to get something up by the February 22 meeting.
• Until it gets posted, think about topics you’d like to have discussed at the summit.

Feedback

Couldn’t make it to this meeting? Would you like to lend a hand to one of the initiatives above? Please drop into the comments and share your thoughts!

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 1600 UTC. While that may be early (or late) for a number of you, we’d really love to have you join us.

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