Tide Chat Summary: May 7th
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from May 7th 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.
1.0.0-rc
9issues still remain in the milestone- Two
good first issuein that list in case folks want to contribute in this release: wptide#100 and wptide#178 - We continue to look for folks in the community who are interested and available to contribute to these 9 issues in the 1.0.0 milestone, please reach out if that’s you!
General announcements
- @amethystanswers dropped by last week with some questions related to Calgary Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. on Saturday, May 25th
- Onboarding process is likely best to be running through local installation and setup
- Looking for folks to monitor the #tide Slack channel, @jeffpaul & @kkoppenhaver will keep a loose watch but would be great for others to pitch in that day as well
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on May 14, 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.