Tide Chat Summary: April 2nd
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from April 2nd 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.
1.0.0-rc
- @valendesigns continues to work through issues/PRs in the milestone, though we continue to look for any help from others as well
- Some new issues and PRs in the
docsrepo, thanks to those helping review and assist there!
Tide Dashicon
- Changes from core#41074 were merged into 5.2-beta1, will be officially available on the Dashicons resource page when 5.2 is released later this month
- You can now see the updated Tide Dashicon on make.wordpress.org and make.wordpress.org/tide, many thanks to all who’ve helped on this!
General announcements
- @jeffpaul added GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ alerts for the various Tide repos to the Slack channel
- Alerts for comments were included, but that quickly got too chatty so they were removed
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on April 9, 2019 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.