Tide Chat Summary: October 23rd
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from October 23rd 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. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.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.
Repo decommissioning + deletion
- Previously we decommissioned several repos from the alpha version of Tide at WCUS 2017 and have deleted those repos this week: wptide/api, wptide/lighthouse-server, wptide/sync-server, wptide/audit-server, wptide/tide-local
- Remaining, active repos are wptide/wptide, wptide/docs, wptide/pkg, wptide/wp-tide-api, wptide/wporg-tide-api
Transition to office hours
- @jeffpaul will be out of the office for the next couple of weeks, so we’ll be transitioning to
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General announcements
- WordCamp Portland (Oregon) is Saturday, November 3rd and will feature the critically acclaimed “A rising Tide lifts all boats – The importance of code quality and why Tide exists” talk from our very own @valendesigns. So stop by the event if you’re in the area or stay tuned for the talk to hit wordpress.tv in the near future.
- @valendesigns also trying to sort out upgrading phpcsPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. this week to get the repo stable again including changes that need to happen in the Go code to make it all work
Next meeting
As noted above, we’ll be transitioning to office hours for the next couple of weeks while @jeffpaul is away. Please drop in to the #tide Slack channel in the meantime and we’ll respond asynchronously.
The next meeting will take place on November 13, 2018 at 20:00 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.