2023-05-10 - Weekly Hosting Meeting #146
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The only Five for the Future participant we had in the late meeting was pwtyler. I did update the content regarding WP-CLI to reflect the delayed release. I also updated the content for Project Bedrock to include notes from the earlier meeting. Thanks for pulling these together @javiercasares ! |
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/here < meeting type="hosting" > Who’s here to chat about hosting?
👋 Hello! This is the weekly 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 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
:community: ··· 2021-2022 WordPress Meetup Survey ···
2021-2022 WordPress Meetup Survey: Key Findings
The 2021-2022 WordPress Meetup Survey received 2867 responses, with 94% of respondents likely to recommend WordPress meetups. The top challenges to increasing attendance were scheduling conflicts, lack of interest, and event location, while attendees favored group learning formats, with hybrid online/in-person events of interest.
:community: ··· 2022 Annual Survey Results & Next Steps ···
2022 Annual Survey Results & Next Steps
The 2022 Annual Survey received a comprehensive update. The survey showed increased usage of blocks and the new site editor, while WordPressers choose the platform for being open source, flexible, low risk, cost-effective, and having a positive reputation. WordPress is seen as good or better than other CMS platforms, and its ease of use, flexibility, and plugin options are highly valued.
:wordpress: ··· WordPress 6.2.1 Planning ···
WordPress 6.2.1 Planning
WordPress 6.2.1 RC1 is now available
WordPress 6.2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release:
wp core update https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.2.1-RC1.zip:plugins: ··· Gutenberg 15.7 ···
Gutenberg 15.7
For the latest release of the Gutenberg plugin, contributors continued improvements to existing UI and UX for content creators, site owners working on their own site, or theme developers creating new themes. Users will find small changes for streamlined workflows, fixed bugs, and refined responsiveness, just to name a few. Highlights:
:themes: ··· Stacks: The first community theme ···
Stacks: The first community theme
Not a lot to say. The best way is to check the Theme Stacks and look at the preview… Stacks preview.
:community: ··· 20 Days to Celebrate 20 Years of WordPress, From Blogs to Blocks ···
20 Days to Celebrate 20 Years of WordPress, From Blogs to Blocks
Day 1: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Day 2: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
We are so happy to be celebrating WordPress and the incredible WordPress community as we approach the 20th anniversary of WordPress on May 27, 2023. We hope you enjoy participating in this community game and that it gives you an opportunity to reflect on and share your favorite parts of WordPress.
:community: ··· Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US 2023 ···
The WordPress Foundation is once again offering the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for travel to WordCamp US 2023.
This scholarship is awarded to someone who:
Hosting Team Time
:wordpress: ··· SQLite Update ···
[Status update on the SQLite project]
The initial implementation was included in the Performance Lab plugin and then released as a stand-alone plugin.
Why should this be in Core and not as a plugin?
In its current form, the SQLite implementation is a plugin. Just like all plugins, it can only be installed on a pre-existing website. As a result, a site can only use an SQLite database if it already has a MySQL database – effectively negating all the benefits that SQLite can bring to WordPress.
Using the featured plugin is a great way to allow users to test the implementation and iron out any issues etc. However, long-term, it doesn’t make sense to use it as a plugin.
The proof-of-concept UI in that implementation checks if the server supports SQLite and MySQL:
How can this implementation be tested?
The next step would be thoroughly to test the implementation with all the plugins you normally use. You can use the SQLite Database Integration plugin to test an SQLite database on your existing website, or better yet – you can test the pull request in WordPress Core.
🤖 ··· WP-CLI 2.8.0 ···
WP-CLI v2.8.0 release date
The v2.8.0 release of WP-CLI is scheduled to be published on 2023-05-03.
Among others a multitude of bug fixes and some new features, we’re also expecting this release to fix all known PHP 8.2 issues within WP-CLI itself.
The release candidate for this release will already be available sometime during the week prior, to allow for early testing. We will announce the availability of that release candidate in the #hosting-community channel to allow hosters to do early smoke testing.
🗓️ ··· 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?
Great, so just a look at our projects.
Hosting Team Projects
📕 ··· Advanced Administration Handbook ···
The Advanced Administration handbook is now public and online.
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.
If anybody needs help or mentoring for this project, @javiercasares is always available.
☁️ ··· Host Test Runners ···
You may have heard of Host Test Results, a community-led project that helps WordPress users find the best hosts for their sites. Host Test Results provides a comprehensive list of hosting providers and detailed information about each host's performance and reliability.
We want to make sure that as many hosts as possible are included in the Host Test Results database, so that WordPress users, the #core-test, and the #core team can benefit from this valuable resource. That's why we're asking you to check if your host is already supporting Host Test Results, and to add your host if it still needs to be included.
To check if your hoster is already supporting Host Test Results, visit the website (https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/test-results/) and search for your host's name. If your host is already included, great! You can use the information provided to make sure that you're getting the best possible performance and reliability from your site.
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.
☁️ ··· WordPress /hosting page & Project Bedrock ···
Project Bedrock (aka WordPress /hosting)
For a long time, there has been wordpress.org/hosting, which is underused and which is currently just that, a simple page.
For many years, the Make Hosting team has been raising the possibility of creating a directory in which any hosting company that meets a series of predefined requirements, can appear as recommended hosting, or compatible with the WordPress CMS.
This project began as the “Requirement Matrix” Criteria, a list created by several members of the Community in which dozens of factors are listed by which each of these hosting providers can be considered, either by functionalities (not numbers), alignment with the project and WordPress values, the minimum technical requirements and options.
This document will try to solve some doubts regarding what factors should be considered, how to develop the project, what teams should be involved in it, and how to maintain the site.
An important element, which should appear in the list, is respect for the use of the WordPress brand.
This living directory can also help WordPress as a brand to make sure we have a transparent and trusted source of hosting companies. Companies where the onboarding experience is friendly and in a well-maintained shape, to not lose newcomers to other solutions like WIX or Shopify. We, as a community, need to make sure that we don’t lose them as customers and users of our ecosystem only because they couldn’t find a good hosting solution.
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.
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-community 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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