Playground Meeting Summary – October 25, 2024

The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions.

• When? October 25, 2024
• Where? #playground slack channel
• Facilitator: @berislavgrgicak

Announcements

• CORS Proxy: A CORS Proxy is now available on playground.wordpress.net. It enables loading files directly from Git repositories using the git:directory resourece.
• cURL Support: cURL is now available in web browsers.
• Data Liberation Project: Kickoff announced.

Contributor Updates:

• @berislavgrgicak Introduced password-less logins and gave his first ever talk about Playground
• @bph will review and update blueprints from the gallery to use the new themeData feature and the CORS proxy
• @zieladam implemented CURL support in web browsers
• @akirk built a Blueprint for the Friends plugin and turned Playground into an RSS and ActivityPub reader. Also, Alex expanded the Step Library with steps like addCorsProxy, addMedia, and importFriendFeeds.
• @psykro contributed a Blueprint for the Create Block Theme plugin

Discussions:

• @bph asked about a PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. deprecation message in a Playground setup, which turned out to be likely related to the TT5 theme. The issue will be further investigated asynchronously on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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. https://github.com/.
• The meeting time will shift to 2 PM UTC to better accommodate US time zones. Recurring meetings are now scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month at this new time.

Shout-outs and Thanks: The team thanked @berislavgrgicak for facilitating the meeting for the first time and @bph for her increased involvement in developer relations for Playground.