Tide Chat Summary: October 12th

This post summarizes the Tide chat from October 12th 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.

Node refactoring

  • @derekherman looking to resolve a couple bugs ahead of merging breaking change PR to way reports are stored
  • @jeffpaul noted that @antpb and folks working on PHP Compat Checker plugin do not appear to have started on their refactor to utilize Tide, so now may be better time to merge breaking PR
  • @alexcuadra to review staging docs site and open issues for any concerns from review on contributing to Tide

Next meeting

The next meeting, a 30-minute Tide status update and open floor discussion, will take place on October 26, 2021 at 18:00 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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