Ulrich 2:15 pm on October 1, 2016  

Automation Meeting summary September 29, 2016

Items discussed

You can view the full meeting notes in the Slack archive. A Slack account is required.

@frankklein published a post on the background of the automation and why we have chosen ceratin tools. https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2016/09/29/why-are-we-working-to-improve-the-automation-of-the-theme-review/

All of the active contributors gave a quick update what they have been working on.

  • @grapplerulrich is working on coordinating contributions and looking to modularize the restricted function sniffssniff A module for PHP Code Sniffer that analyzes code for a specific problem. Multiple stiffs are combined to create a PHPCS standard. The term is named because it detects code smells, similar to how a dog would "sniff" out food. upstream in WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016..
  • @frankklein is working on underlying architecture/framework using phpDocumentor/Reflection library so that we can easily create sniffs to check the existence of files and functions as PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. is unable to do this. Codename `Theme_Analyser`
  • @kevinhaig has been working on automation every day since July. He has worked on `Abstract_ThemeSniff` and large number of other sniffs.
  • @jrf has been contributing upstream at WPCS and PHPCS to fix issues. She has also worked on utilities which should make the code for future sniffs easier.

We have set a few goals for the next meeting

  • Get a MVPMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia for the `Theme_Analyser` so that others can review the code and start extending it.
  • Get the easy pull requests ready so that they can be merged.
  • Merge as many PR as possible.

The next meeting will be on the 13th October:

Channel: #themereview | Time: Thursday October 13th at 14:00 UTC 14:00 UTC