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 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/ is currently in the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 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 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/.
• @clorith from the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://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!