Hosting Meeting Notes: May 16th, 2018

Here’s the summary of our meeting #hosting-community on Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 at 1700 UTC (Slack archive).

Attendees:
@mikeschroder @antpb @brettface @jadonn @josh2k5 @pdclark

Announcements/Reminders

• WordPress 4.9.6 Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 2 is out
  • WordPress 4.9.6 is scheduled for release Thursday, May 17th, 2018.
• The next HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Documentation Collaboration day is scheduled for Friday, May 18th, 2018 at 1700 UTC.
  • Interested in helping out? Stop by the #hosting-community 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/. channel for more information.

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

• Collaboration day was held Friday, May 11th, 2018 to start working on a plan for helping hosts prepare for Gutenberg
  • @danielbachhuber, @pdclark, and @jadonn attended
  • Collaborators started:
    • Gutenberg Hosting Support Best Practices Project outline
    • Gutenberg Hosting Support Best Practices Documentation
  • Contributions are welcome to both documents!

Hosting Best Practices Documentation

• @mikeschroder reported that @andrewtaylor-1 was out this week but did not have any updates on this project.
• This project still needs help with content for several topics:
  • Performance
    • Fragment Caching
      
  • Configuration
    • Memory Limits
      
    • File Upload Sizes
      
  • DatabaseDatabase A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it. Engines
    • MySQL
      
    • MariaDB
      
    • Percona
  • 
    

Feedback

Miss this week’s meeting and want to discuss the initiatives above? Spend some time in the comments and share your thoughts!

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018, 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!

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