2023-07-12 - Weekly Hosting Meeting #172
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Meeting
/here [meeting type="hosting"] Who's here to chat about hosting?
👋 Hello! This is the weekly meeting for the WordPress Hosting Team, who works with hosts and developers to help improve the WordPress user experience. This is a great time to ask any questions you may have, or visit Make/Hosting for more info.
🥇 If you participate in the Five for the Future program, drop your WordPress.org username in a thread here 👉
🤗 If you're new here, welcome! You are welcome to introduce yourself if you like in a thread here 👉
Agenda
📓 ··· Here is the agenda for this meeting ···
WordPress Community
Hosting Team Time
Hosting Team Projects
Open Floor
Would anyone like to add to or change any items on the agenda?
OK, let's get started with the WordPress Community news.
WordPress Community
:wordpress: ··· WordPress 6.3 status ···
WordPress 6.3 Beta 2
WordPress 6.3 Beta 3
WordPress 6.3 Beta 4
WordPress 6.3 Live Product Demo on 2023-07-20 16:00 UTC.
:gutenberg: ··· Gutenberg phase 3 ···
Matias has published some information about Gutenberg Phase 3.
Hosting Team Time
:php: ··· Dropping support for PHP 5.x ···
Support for PHP 5 will be dropped in WordPress 6.3, scheduled for release on August 8th 2023. The new minimum supported version of PHP will be 7.0.0. The recommended version of PHP remains at 7.4 or greater.
As you may know, as a team, we are recommending Hosters (and users) to use PHP 8.1.
:community: ··· Meeting Update Proposal ···
@javiercasares and @Crixu have shared insights on how we can increase interaction within our meetings while also fostering collaborative team work.
There is a new plan underway to revise the structure of our meeting schedule to accommodate just one meeting per week, supplemented by a weekly office hours slot.
These office hours will provide a platform for us to collaboratively address outstanding tasks, resolve queries related to contributions to the team, or even to prep for contributor days.
Considering these ongoing projects like the WordPress Hosting Team Handbook, Automated Hosting Tests, and Advanced Admin Handbook, we need to contemplate how we can make the most of this proposed meeting structure. Our projects are diverse, focusing on areas such as documentation and PHP compatibility, and we even have some collaborative work with the Documentation Team.
So, the key question arises – how do we best utilize this time? Should we dedicate certain office hours exclusively to individual projects, or perhaps, incorporate a rotation system to cover all areas over a certain period? What are your thoughts on maintaining a balance between teamwork and individual project progression during these scheduled times? Your input is vital in shaping our new approach.
🗓️ ··· Upcoming Hosting Contributor Day ···
Heads up, some events are coming down the pipeline along with some Contributor Days to participate in:
Is anyone going to a WordCamp and wants to lead a Hosting Table?
Moreover, as you may know, there is the Community Summit in a month. @javiercasares will be there and… should he arise any idea or project that may be a Team Project?
Great, so just a look at our projects.
Hosting Team Projects
📕 ··· Advanced Administration Handbook ···
Currently, everything pending to do is in the Issues part. A lot of "documentation + enhancement" tickets, and also some "documentation + good first issue" for Contributor Day and for first arrivers.
☁️ ··· Host Test Runners ···
The idea behind the distributed hosting tests is to run WordPress' automated test suite across a variety of hosting environments, to help verify that changes on WordPress don't unintentionally affect hosts, and to help hosts be aware of how changes on WordPress or their environments affect how WordPress runs on their services.
If your host isn't included, don't worry, you can still help! You can just follow the instructions on the website to add your host to the database. It's quick and easy, and you'll be helping other WordPress users find the best hosts for their sites. However, if your host has not received reports in the last 25 revisions, we encourage you to check back with them.
NOTE: This last link, maybe we can adapt it and include it into our test Handbook page.
📄 ··· WordPress Hosting Directory ···
As we discussed some time ago, the Bedrock project is temporarily stopped as initially planned (to put it in the /hosting), but the project continues to create a pilot demo in which to start collecting data.
After the first demos / tests (non-functional) in https://www.wphosting.team/provider/, over the coming weeks @glycymeris and @javiercasares are going to work on something more functional and something more advanced than that simple form, probably with ACF and some other tools, creating both the backend and the frontend so that everything can be executed publicly.
If anyone wants to participate in the pilot project, please comment it, and we can tell you when we have something started, so we can test, collect ideas or whatever.
Open Floor
Ok, if nothing else, let’s move on to 🤖 Open Floor. Folks are welcome to bring any topic up for discussion at this time.
Why not share what's new in your part of the WordPress world? Any new WordCamp, achievements or things worth celebrating?
Next meeting
⏰ Here are the team's upcoming meetings:
📌 Okay, we're out of time for today, let's close out this meeting.
You are welcome to continue the conversation here in the #hosting channel or on Make/Hosting, at any time.
Thank you all for joining and for your contributions to WordPress!
See you at the next Hosting Team weekly meeting! [/meeting]
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