Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-07-01

Next Meeting

The next meetings will be in the #hosting channel on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 0900 UTC and Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 1800 UTC.

Agenda

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. Team

• WCUS CD Planning. Team Reps are proposing that the team focus on test runner improvements.
  • Yes/no? Feel free to comment with any thoughts or ideas.
  • If Yes: Should the team
    • do a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. Project and kanban, break tasks down into more actionable parts, assign in advance?
    • zoom in on one area of improvement or try to tackle a few?
  • Potential runner focus areas (and tickets/PRs):
    • Multi-env reporting
      • @jazzs3quence is motivated to spearhead this :hero:
      • More context
    • Dev pipeline and testing
      • Use case: this PR (drop db tables on cleanup) has been blocked for years because it needs to be tested. Right now the team is relying on manual testing and that is not working.
      • Automate testing – Commits could trigger spinning up LAMPLAMP LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a very common example of a web service stack of four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language./LEMPLEMP LEMP (Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP) is a very common example of a web service stack of four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the nginx web server, the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language. containers that mimic web servers, clone the repo and fire prepare, test, report and cleanup .php processes, identifying any errors or issues with the changes pushed. (like if it breaks the runner)
      • phpunit-test-runner/pull/325 prelim cicd w coding standards test – reviews wanted! the more eyes the better. 
      • phpunit-test-runner/pull/245 – Add GH action for remote test execution – needs follow up and feedback
    • Improving the runner set up process
      • Lucas’ previous proposal
      • phpunit-test-runner/pull/246 – reduce use of node in setup – needs follow up
      • other ideas ? 
    • What else? Drop a comment 🙂 
• More tickets/PRs:
  • phpunit-test-runner/pull/319 – Update to report databaseDatabase A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it. serverServer A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers. version  – needs reviews
  • phpunit-test-runner/issues/316 – Error handling and notifications – needs assignee 
  • hosting-handbook/pull/404 – add runner automation example – needs reviews
  • hosting-handbook/pull/402 – adding info on running tests over ssh – needs reviews
  • hosting-handbook/pull/403 – improve opcache guidance – needs reviews
  • A number of Advanced Admin PRs have been merged, thank you to everyone who opened PRs and helped review! Props to @ekamran @jazzs3quence @mindctrl @johnbillion (did I miss anyone?)
  • These PRs all need reviews: Advanced-administration-handbook/pulls