Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on Monday August 19, 2019 at 1400 UTC (Slack archive).
Here is the agenda from the meeting.
Attendees: @tailsxkyuubi, @sanyog, @zodiac1978, @earnjam, @mazeheld, @danfoster, @jnashhawkins, @amykamala, @clorith, @redituk, @kenshino, @mdw1989, @duchesscorp, @mikeschroder
Housekeeping
@mikeschroder asked for volunteers for meeting notes and leading, and @earnjam and @sanyog offered to help! @mikeschroder to connect with folks to arrange a schedule.
There are no requirements, and it’s a great way to get involved. In part because the meetings are split between time zones, there were only 2-3 folks currently volunteering to write up notes or lead meetings. This makes it tough to have the meetings + notes happen if one person can’t make it. Let’s create a rotation of folks together!
If you’re interested, please comment on this post, or feel free to reach out to @mikeschroder with any questions.
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. Changes
The group chatted about the changes set to happen the next day (on August 20, 2019), to make the PHP upgrade recommendation widget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. appear with PHP <= 5.6. Folks were supportive of the change. Please leave a comment or join the team in #hosting-community for any post-rollout feedback! Conversation in there is ongoing.
WordPress Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. Security Support and Upgrade Proposals
There was a quick chat about the two proposals to trim the WordPress versions that receive security backports and to gradually auto-upgrade major versions of sites.
There wasn’t a lot of feedback in the meeting, but what folks said was supportive of the changes.
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 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. Page
The team talked about the WordPress.org hosting page project @chanthaboune brought to the team in a prior meeting.
@mikeschroder posted some documentation from @chanthaboune for background/ prior art to look through from the WordPress team at a CloudFest Hackathon. It includes some interesting notes on hosting quality an in-progress spreadsheet with some hosting specifics. Please take a look!
The general consensus seemed to be that there’s excitement for change, to having clearer requirements for listing, and for the selection process to be more open.
It was brought up that performance testing is difficult, and several folks agreed that @kohashi‘s methods were a fair way of doing so. He offered some thoughts after the meeting.
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 28, 2019 at 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!
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