Tide Chat Summary: May 14th
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from May 14th 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
9open issues still remain in the 1.0.0 milestone- A couple
good first issueones in there for those interested and able to help out, would love to see PRs for them (wptide#100 & wptide#178)!
General announcements
- @valendesigns spoke with WCEU organizers and he’ll be running the Tide table at 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/.; please call out if you’ll be there and plan to assist or stop by
- In order to update the docs on wptide.org, it requires a manual deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. to App Engine with a Make command; @jeffpaul to work through some backlogged issues/PRs in the docs repo
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on May 21, 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.