Tide Chat Summary: January 30th

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from January 30th 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).

Reminder that the current Tide focus is integrating 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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. Compatibility data from Tide 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/. Once PHP Compatibility is integrated into WordPress.org, we’ll assess the next focus to provide the biggest impact to the community.

Feedback on code reviews

  • If you are having questions on getting setup to test Tide or any other issues that could be addressed please reach out in the #tide Slack channel

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 WP.org

General announcements

  • @valendesigns: I'm still working on the GCP migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies., things are getting a slow start but should have an update on progress maybe next week

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on February 6, 2018 at 22:00 UTC / February 6, 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.

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