2024-01-10 Weekly Hosting Meeting

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Ideas, topics and things not to forget...

Hosting Team

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7371

General hosting-related tickets

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7236
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56390
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58816
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54116
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54338
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50188

Next meetings date

2024-01-10 1800 UTC
2024-01-24 0900 UTC
2024-02-07 1800 UTC
2024-02-21 0900 UTC
2024-03-06 1800 UTC
2024-03-20 0900 UTC
2024-03-27 0900 UTC (tentative, WordPress 6.5 release)

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Test tools:

• https://github.com/WordPress/phpunit-test-reporter/pulls
• https://github.com/WordPress/phpunit-test-runner/pulls

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Pending posts:

• About the Hosting event (pending Community)
• About the Cloudfest Hackathon project

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Hosting Team meeting agenda 2024-01-10

EXCERPT:

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Agenda

WordPress Community

• WordPress Core news
• WordPress Community news

Hosting Team Time

• WordPress Hosting Compatibility
• Team Goals for 2024
• WordPress Hosting Team event
• More Hosting Team topics

Open Floor

• Anything not in the agenda

Meeting

/here [meeting type="hosting"] Who's here to chat about hosting?

👋 Hello! This is the meeting for the WordPress.org 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. 👉

Agenda

🟢 Here is the agenda for this meeting

[...] Use the agenda above [...]

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 Core news

• Roadmap to 6.5.
• Raising the minimum version of MySQL required in WordPress 6.5.

🟢 WordPress Community news

General information

• Data Liberation project.
• Update on Matrix Migration: Pausing the Transition.
• BuddyPress 12.0.0 “Nonno”.

2023 summary

• WordPress End of Year Celebrations!.
• WordPress performance impact on Core Web Vitals in 2023

Events information

• WordCamp Asia Contributor Day.
• WordCamp Europe Call for Speakers is scheduled to close on 15 January 2024.
• WordCamp Europe Tickets
• WordCamp US 2024 September 17-20, 2024 (Portland)

Mentorship program (starting "now")

• Mentorship Chat Agenda
• Mentorship Chat Recap

Ok, let's move on to Hosting Team time.

Hosting Team Time!

🟢 WordPress Hosting Compatibility

Meeting reminder, only for your information:

• WordPress 6.4 PHP Compatibility
• WordPress 6.3 PHP Compatibility
• WordPress Hosting Server Environment
• WordPress Compatibility

🟢 Team Goals for 2024

We want your input on the goals we're planning for this team for 2024. There will soon be a post on our p2 about the goals, and you can already start brainstorming your ideas on this channel. Our main ideas are to focus on 4 areas:

1. Testing Project with the Hosting Tests

• Continuation Plan: Enhancing our PHPUnit test runner and PHPUnit test reporter by adding new capabilities and moving it to the latest tech stack.
• Community Involvement: Inviting more hosting companies to participate and share their insights to enrich this project.
• Improve communication: Contact all the testers to see if the team can help improve the information and feedback.

2. Documentation Projects

• Advanced Admin Documentation: Updating and expanding our resources to cover the latest trends and best practices in WordPress administration.
• Hosting Handbook: Continually refining our handbook to make it an even more comprehensive guide for both new and veteran WordPress hosts.
• Migrate content: There is some documentation in the Hosting Handbook that should be in the Advanced Administration or, maybe, other handbooks.

3. The Hosting Event 2024

• Event Planning: Organizing a hosting-centric WordPress event in June 2024 (before WordCamp Europe 2024).

4. CloudFest Hackathon 2024

• The WordPress Tools for Hosting Providers project has been selected to participate on March 16-18, 2024 in the CloudFest Hackathon.

🟢 WordPress Hosting Team event

We've met two weeks ago to discuss the ideas around the WordPress Hosting Team event, which is planned to take place the day before the Contributor Day of #wceu in 2024. You can expect more information soon.

Floating ideas:

• Event about hosting, security, performance, and sustainability.
• Event date: 2023-06-12 (so, Wednesday before Contributor Day / WCEU)
• Event time around 0800-1400 (this will leave the afternoon free, so there is time to visit the city or go to WCEU sponsor events)
• One track, but two kinds of talks: “Community” and “Professional”. “Community” from the community to the attendees, so we can show WordPress projects and how Host can benefit and contribute. “Professional” so professionals can give us some great talks about what they are doing around hosting, security, performance, and sustainability…

When we have some OK from different parts involved, and we can start, officially, we will announce everything and start detailing more. We already have a location in Torino that would be available.

🟢 More Hosting Team topics

🟩 WP 6.5 and PHP compatibility

WordPress 6.5 is expected in early 2024 (2024-03-26), and we can already prepare us from the hosting site. Please make sure to always test the latest builds and help the community by providing feedback.

Let's make sure to have a compatibility and recommendation post around WordPress 6.5 on the release, with a focus on PHP 8.2 and 8.3 until then.

🟩 Team meetings

We don't have so much news to have 2 weekly meetings. The focus is to work more asynchronously.

But, there will be an exception. Each new major version, we will have a meeting the next day around 0900 UTC, probably with the WordPress N.N PHP Compatibility post related.

Dates are:

• 2024-01-10 1800 UTC (this meeting)
• 2024-01-24 0900 UTC
• 2024-02-07 1800 UTC
• 2024-02-21 0900 UTC
• 2024-03-06 1800 UTC
• 2024-03-20 0900 UTC
• 2024-03-27 0900 UTC (tentative, WordPress 6.5 release)

All the meetings will be announced at the Meetings site. You can subscribe to it (iCal Hosting.

🟩 Office hours

Same as we are working on reducing the weekly meetings, the focus for this 2024 is to increase the work on Documentation and Tools, and support for Hosting providers.

We will propose a calendar for those meetings.

Topics:

• Documentation (Hosting Team Handbook)
• Documentation (Advanced Admin Handbook)
• Tools (Test Runner aka test-runner)
• Tools (API and Results Page aka test-reporter)

The idea is to have at least a weekly meeting about one of these topics.

🟩 Tickets

Hosting Team

• https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7371

General hosting-related tickets

• https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7236
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56390
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58816
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54116
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54338
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50188

Test tools

• https://github.com/WordPress/phpunit-test-reporter/pulls
• https://github.com/WordPress/phpunit-test-runner/pulls

🟩 Open Floor

Ok, if nothing else, let's move on to the Open Floor. You are welcome to bring any topic up for discussion at this time.

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Goodbye

Okay, let's close out this meeting.

You are welcome to continue the conversation here in the Slack #hosting channel, or on Make/Hosting, at any time.

Here are the team's upcoming meetings:

• 2024-01-24 0900 UTC
• 2024-02-07 1800 UTC
• 2024-02-21 0900 UTC
• 2024-03-06 1800 UTC
• 2024-03-20 0900 UTC
• 2024-03-27 0900 UTC (tentative, WordPress 6.5 release)

Thank you all for joining and for your contributions to WordPress!

Hope you have a wonderful rest of your week! [/meeting]