Tide Chat Summary: December 19th
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from December 19th in the #tide SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel (agenda, Slack archive).
Progress on code open sourcing
- Almost wrapped on making all the things Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL., a few more modifications then we'll version the release and merge the PRs
- Everything is already available in PRs to
develop - All the pieces are open sourced, we're working on an issue while testing a clean install
- We're re-running all the audits right now after changes that were made yesterday (e.g., removing stack traces)
- To get to specific audits you can add
wporg/<slug>to the end of https://wptide.org/api/tide/v1/audit/ - Example: https://wptide.org/api/tide/v1/audit/wporg/wordpress-seo
- Inserts all the extra detailed report data: https://wptide.org/api/tide/v1/audit/wporg/wordpress-seo?details=all
- Or specific report: https://wptide.org/api/tide/v1/audit/wporg/wordpress-seo?details=phpcs_phpcompatibility
- Tide is a mechanism for executing PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. and storing the results of it in an APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., the real work is done in the WordPress Coding Standards & PHPCompatibility standard projects
- Feedback on 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. Compat issues is welcomed either on audit-server or via PHPCompatibility standards (latter preferred as standardization of messages will help our efforts tremendously)
- Also looking for community to help find and fix bugs
Progress on UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. of PHP Compat integration into WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/
- Trying to propose where the PHP Compat errors could show
- Suggestion for how we could surface PHP compatibility into the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party interface when searching plugins on WordPress.org
- Could surface errors & warnings for the plugin author and everyone else just gets a list of compatible PHP versions
- Feedback and suggestions are welcome via the related Issue in
tide-issues
Meeting hiatus over holidays
- With travel and holidays, today was the final Tide chat in 2017
- First Tide chat in 2018 will be on Tuesday, January 9, 2017 at 22:00 UTC focused on feedback on the open source repos as many will still be offline that week
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on January 9, 2018 at 22:00 UTC / January 9, 2018 at 22:00 UTC in the #tide Slack channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.