General announcements
Consider helping the ServeHappy project, the aim is to educate and help users upgrade their PHP 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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. versions. As this directly impacts users, it’s a great idea for support oriented users to get involved.
The project is being worked on at the ServeHappy GitHub page, with a draft.md file for their info page being the most ideal place to contribute.
WordPress 4.9.1
No new items have popped up that needs consideration in 4.9.1.
As for the 4.9.2 timeline, the current tentative release is set for the end of January.
Checking in with international liaisons
The Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, Hindi and Russian communities were present during this weeks chat, and gave positive impressions for how things are going.
Open floor
A request to re-introduce image embed support was brought forward, after the forum upgrade this hasn’t been working for all the previously whitelisted providers.
There exists a meta ticket exists for this issue, and embeds currently work as intended when using the CloudUp service.
A reminder that our next support workshop is coming up soon
Scaling Support: Dip the Data Bucket Every Day – Workshop on January 22, 2018
Attendance
@abletec, @alichani, @bcworkz, @bdbrown, @belly05, @bemdesign, @clorith, @dougaitken, @felipeelia, @fernandot, @fierevere, @firoz2456, @geoffreyshilling, @hardeepasrani, @howdy_mcgee, @ipstenu, @jcastaneda, @jdembowski, @kimwhite, @macmanx, @numeeja, @pmfonseca, @stephencottontail, @sterndata, @t-p, @tobifjellner and @zoonini attended.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
Contributor tip
If someone has a hosting issue, add a tag to their topic with the host name, many of the larger hosts look for them and will actively try to help the user if there’s an issue.
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