Here’s the summary of our meeting #hosting-community on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 at 1700 UTC (Slack archive).

Attendees:
@danielbachhuber @andrewtaylor-1 @rawrly @hirenpurohit @brettface  @jadonn @jessecowens @mazeheld

Announcements/Reminders

• Try Gutenberg is currently in the beta release of WordPress 4.9.8
  
  • WordPress 4.9.8 is due for general release on July 31st
  • Hosts can relay feedback to the #hosting-community team or through the Gutenberg GitHub issues tracker

Hosting Best Practices Documentation

• @andrewtaylor-1 reported the pull request from WordCamp Europe has been submitted
  
  • @andrewtaylor-1 will do a final review with @mikeschroder
• @andrewtaylor-1 mentioned that @pdclark has also submitted a new issue with some content suggestions

Gutenberg

• @danielbachhuber published a blog post with an update on the major reported blockers for Try Gutenberg
  • The post addresses the issues (listed below) mentioned in last week’s meeting as blockers to more widespread adoption of Gutenberg by hosting companies
    • #4681: Create deprecation plan for the “Gutenberg” name 
    • #3900: 1.9.1: Gutenberg breaks “classic” posts w/ shortcodes by carelessly wrapping shortcodes into 
      tags
    • #4672: Unexpected content changes toggling Classic editor from Text to Visual to Text
• Hosts were invited to report on their plans for preparing for Try Gutenberg’s launch
  • @jadonn reported InMotion Hosting was working with partners to get access to the educational content from Gutenberg Courses
  • No other hosts had anything to report at this meeting
• @jadonn asked for feedback for the Try Gutenberg Support Best Practices Documentation
  • This document is an ongoing work to develop a shared living resource hosting support teams can use to collaborate on best practices.
  • For any questions, reach out to @jadonn on Slack
• @clorith from the WordPress.org #forums team announced the WordPress.org Support Forums team will be creating a clearinghouse for Gutenberg support-related information during the release phase
  • @clorith invited the #hosting-community team to coordinate with the #forums team’s efforts for supporting Gutenberg users and for collecting feedback and data from Gutenberg users

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, July 25th, 2018, 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!