Here’s the summary of our meetings in #hosting-community on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 0900 UTC and on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 1800 UTC. (Slack archive).
The meetings were led by @crixu and @jadonn. Notes taken by @mikeschroder and @amykamala.
Attendees: @chaion07, @JavierCasares, @francina, @sstoyanov, @mazeheld
Agenda
## Greetings
- Welcome and Personal Check-in
## Highlights
- Gutenberg 8.3
- Feedback requested: WP Notify
- New Meeting Calendar
## Hosting Team Time
- Taking Notes
- Badge Announcement and Open Call for Hosting Badge Requests
- Hosting Page Updates
- Open Handbook PRs
- Task Check-in
## Open Floor
Highlights
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. Team Time
Call for note takers!
Please comment or ask in the channel if you’d like to help out. There are no requirements to take part, and it’s a great way to get involved. There’s peer review for folks helping out, too — so no worries about mistakes.
@chaion07 offered to be added to the rotation. Thank you!
Contribution Badges
Team reps decided to give @JavierCasares and @pfefferle the Hosting Team badge for their great work and leadership with projects in the past months and during the WCEU Contributor 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/.. Thanks so much!
Hosting Page Project
@mikeschroder had some details to share about the Hosting Page Project via @aaroncampbell and Josepha:
- It sounds like Matt is +1 on the rubric that the Hosting Team came up with, the point/addition that hosts that make a large amount of their budget from hosting WordPress need to give back to administrative / Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. efforts in the project to be recommended.
- The next step is for a small working team to be put together of impartial folks (not from hosts), to evaluate hosts initially, then again once per year.
- The hosting team is likely done with its part, outside of gathering information that the working team needs and/or consulting on the rubric.
- The working group will likely not be put together until after Josepha returns from sabbatical in ~3 months.
Hosting Team Tasks and Check-in
Help is requested for reviews on open pull requests in the handbook repo that could be unblocked.
@JavierCasares specifically pointed these out as ready to go:
@pfefferle requested review on https://github.com/WordPress/phpunit-test-runner/pull/119 for consistency with https://github.com/WordPress/hosting-handbook/pull/11.
@mikeschroder requested review on #36455, both for whether it solves the problems that plugins/hosts have been having with OPcache, and also whether a filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. to control invalidation would be helpful.
Open Floor
@joostdevalk asked whether hosts were testing PHP8, and whether they plan to offer it to customers. Multiple hosts noted that yes, they were planning to release it, but didn’t have specifics. Two plan on shipping a few days after release, but not as a default.
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