Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday July 31, 2019 at 1400 UTC (Slack archive).
Here is the agenda from the meeting.
Attendees: @jadonn @brettface @chanthaboune @aaroncampbell @dhsean @clorith @antpd
Housekeeping
A follow-up post in response to the PHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. extension discussion is pending!
Volunteers are welcome! If you are interested in helping with blog posts, meeting notes or in being more involved in the hosting 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. community team in general, please reach out to @jadonn, @mike, or @amy kamala to get started!
Thank you @aaroncampbell for volunteering to proof read. Much appreciated!
#core – Feedback Requested!
The #core team is looking for feedback on this post: should security fixes continue to be backported to very old versions of WordPress
Also looking for feedback on this proposal to update WordPress versions lower than 4.7 automatically.
Host input is encouraged! Please don’t hesitate to participate in the conversation by replying to the post or bringing it up in the channel discussion!
Hosting Options on WordPress.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//hosting
Host listings on https://wordpress.org/hosting/ are pending review.
@chanthaboune apologized for being unclear about this process at WCEU, and stated the main goal is to “offer hosting options on our /hosting/ pages that take into account localized service.”
As a first step, the matrix used for hosting requirements must be re-visited and refined.
@clorith stated that doing requirement checks in the public arena alleviates liability
@aaroncampbell brought up that allowing public input could flood the /hosting page with an overwhelming amount of host listings.
@brettface would like to see a visual re-vamping of the /hosting page to make it easier to read and more accessible.
@jadonn believes that “having a more transparent process or set of requirements would be beneficial”
@aaroncampbell mentioned that @remkus at Yoast may have previously helped put together what they use for https://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/
@chanthaboune would love a copy of this as a starting point and stated that “.. our next steps are to figure out what the requirements to be included are”
Thank you to @antpd who volunteered to collect notes, ideas and information for the next meeting where the discussion will continue.
Other teams to be involved in this project are Marketing, Design, Polyglots and Meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. to name some.
Open Floor
@clorith asked that hosts please be aware of the proposal to increase the minimum recommended version of PHP in WordPress
Please feel free to comment on the post!
Feedback
If you missed this week’s meeting and have questions or feedback, leave a comment on this post and share your thoughts! OR….Come join for the next meeting!
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!
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