Tide Chat Summary: July 23rd

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from July 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. 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

  • 8 issues in the milestone
  • Looking for help from the community on the caching and rate limit issues
  • Upgrade of WP version would be helpful for someone from the community to figure out what changed in the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. from 4.9 to 5.0 that is keeping us from upgrading
  • @valendesigns to review pkg#19, test with some audits, and add test coverage
  • Cloud migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. to new GCP organization underway, taking GCP support a bit longer than expected but progressing regardless

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on July 30, 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.

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Tide Chat Summary: July 16th

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from July 16th 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

  • Back down to 8 issues in the milestone
  • wptide#170 got resolved by wptide#187 and docs#35
  • wptide#100 got punted to Future Release
  • @FahimMurshed unable to install on Windows/Laragon or Ubuntu/XAMPP, will look into shutting down other servers while bringing up the Docker containers to avoid port collision (especially 80 and 3306)

General announcements

  • @valendesigns aiming to migrate the servers this week, will be at Google this week and try to get help in detaching the project on GCP so it can be moved
  • Discussion in #meta about testing the data from Tide ahead of showing it on the .ORG pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party pages, questions about the validity and accuracy of the data as well as what specifically to show on the .ORG pages
  • pkg#19 only remaining item from WCEU that hasn’t gotten to a commit, @valendesigns to review this week and add tests to it

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on July 23, 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.

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Tide Chat Summary: July 9th

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from July 9th 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

  • We went up from 8 to now 10 issues in the milestone
  • @jeffpaul noted that wptide#170 is done once wptide#34 gets through review/merge, otherwise the Tide profile badge post summarizes most of the changes/updates
  • Awaiting update from @FahimMurshed and @SandyGarrido on their separate progress on testing Windows setup as part of wptide#100; if no further progress this month then we’ll punt to a future release
  • @valendesigns worked with @dd32 to setup the data sync from Tide to .org at WCEU, needs to check about adding data from themes after the data sync is validated (@jeffpaul to check on progress on meta#4309 with the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team)

General announcements

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on July 16, 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.

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Tide Chat Summary: June 18th

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from June 18th 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

General announcements

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 25, 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.

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Tide Chat Summary: June 11th

This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from June 11th 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

  • 8 issues open in the milestone
  • 3 issues pinned to Issues page that are great opportunities for new contributors:
    • wptide#178: an update to the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. client; @kkoppenhaver may be able to pitch in on this one
    • wptide#100: review and update on our Windows local installLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. instructions; @fahimmurshed still planning to pitch in on this one
    • wptide#170: helping to finish up docs on how we handle Tide Team and Contributor badges

General announcements

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 18, 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.

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