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Hosting Team August 2025 Update

In the month of August 2025:

Web Host Testing

  • 2,827 test results were shared by web hosts 
  • There were 25 hosts actively reporting test results
  • There are 75 hosts registered for testing total
  • As of the today (2025-09-03), hosts have shared 132,715 test results since 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 distributed testing was implemented

Highlighted Posts

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. stats

Github RepoMerged PRsOpen PRsClosed IssuesNew Issues
WordPress Administration Handbook5556
Hosting Team Handbook2443
Hosting Test Runner5259
Hosting Test Reporter0000
Total12111418

Thanks to the Hosting Table at 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/ of 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 2025, we saw a lot of activity and new contributors

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Hosting Team July Update Aug 7, 2025

In the month of July 2025:

Web Host Testing

  • 3,355 test results were shared by web hosts 
  • There were 24 hosts actively reporting test results
  • There are 39 hosts registered for testing total
  • As of the end of July, hosts have shared 130,026 test results since 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 distributed testing was implemented

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. stats

  • 8 Pull Requests were merged
  • 13 Issues were closed
  • 3 new issues were opened
  • 5 contributors contributed to Hosting repositories
  • The most active Github contributors were: @amykamala and @johnbillion

Props to @crixu for collaborating on this data and to @jessibelle for the post review!

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