Hosting Meeting Notes: September 2, 2019

Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on Monday, September 2, 2019 at 1400 UTC (Slack archive).

Here is the agenda from the meeting.

Attendees: @mehul0810, @mazeheld, @francina, @fahimmurshed, @tnash, @clorith, @lightsoutdave, @mikeschroder

Housekeeping

@mikeschroder updated about note taking/leading volunteer efforts. There isn’t a schedule yet, but he started a DM group to discuss, and a google doc for tracking schedule, which started out as a doc from the Editor team (Thank You!). This also includes some introduction documentation for folks contributing. If you’re interested in helping out as well, please comment on this post!

Folks present were also updated on the WP.org 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. page project with some information from last week’s meeting. @antpb is working on the initial draft of a hosting capabilities matrix.

PHPPHP 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. WidgetWidget 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. Changes

@clorith gave some details on some of the outcome from the PHP upgrade widget recommendation change that went live on September 20.

They noted that “Since the 20th we’ve seen a decrease in PHP <7.0 of 1.525%”, and “Not seen a whole lot of user-discussions about this though, so in my head that means everyone is doing a smashing job at helping their users.” 🎉

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US Contribution Day

@aaroncampbell reached out to @jadonn and @mikeschroder to ask who would lead the hosting team at WordCamp US contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., and recommended that the team have a plan to work on. Ideally there would be two folks helping plan + lead things there.

There weren’t any volunteers during the meeting, but @brettface offered afterwards. Thank you!

As for projects to work on, @clorith recommended updating the hosting best practices/recommendations in public documentation. He mentioned that the support team tries to do an audit of their handbook once a year.

@mikeschroder mentioned that, depending on what’s done by then, the team could spend time on end to end tests for distributed testing and/or connecting with metaMeta 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 fix some of the outstanding issues with testing. If any hosts present don’t have distributed testing set up, the team could help them with that, too.

Please leave a comment on the post if you are interested in helping out or have any additional recommendations!

Open Floor

Nothing was brought up during the open floor time. If you’ve got anything to add:

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, September 11, 2019 at 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!

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