Here’s the summary of the meeting in #hosting-community on July 01, 2020 at 09:00 UTC and on July 01, 2020 at 18:00 UTC.(Slack archives).
The meetings were led by @mikeschroder and @jadonn. The Notes were taken by @chaion07.
Attendees: @tillkruess, @ugyensupport, @decipher05, @chaion07, @GMSamejo, @javiercasares, @pfefferle, @francina, @Crixu, @mikeschroder, @jonathansulo, @jadonn, @amykamala, @fahimmurshed, @passoniate, @evanstanton.
At the beginning of the meeting, there was a discussion about the requirements for getting a hosting team badge. Details on this can be found in the hosting handbook. If you have any questions, or are missing a badge, please leave a comment on this post, or contact any of the team reps!
Agenda
## Greetings - Welcome and Personal Check-in ## Highlights - WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 upcoming - jQuery update ## Hosting Team Time - PHP 8 and Hosting Tests- Task Check-in - Open Handbook PRs ## Open Floor
Highlights
WordPress 5.5 Beta 1
WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 will be released on 7 July 2020!
5.5 will be the second major release of 2020 and aims to include an update of the block editor to the latest release of Gutenberg, automatic updates for plugins and themes, a block directory, XML sitemaps, and lazy loading of images.
@pfefferle and @javiercasares mentioned that testing has been going well so far.
jQuery Update
jQuery is getting a major update this time around, and testing has been requested.
@javiercasares pointed out a plugin that makes it easy to test.
Hosting Team Time
Host Testing and PHP 8.0
@pfefferle brought the hosting tests and PHP 8 up for discussion, specifically: “How we can effectively test and report PHP 8 problems and does it make sense to change the host tests to PHP 8 when development of 5.6 starts?”
@mikeschroder recommended that hosts hold off on switching PHP versions until PHP 8 tests are passing on core’s TravisCI, stating that “Core’s TravisCI (it runs the same tests) is already running PHP 8, fortunately, so some things are visible there.”
Per @javiercasares‘ recommendation, two issues were created to check the phpunit-test-reporter and phpunit-test-runner for PHP 8 compatibility to make sure the tools are ready.
@francina investigated the potential for implementing a similar approach to what was taken for PHP 7.4, and mentioned “The test runner could start including PHP8 + ..definitely open tickets in trac to highlight new and deprecated things in PHP8 that need fixing in WP.”
PHP 8 related tickets are being tracked with the php8 keyword, and help is welcome — both with existing tickets, and new ones!
Check-in
@javiercasares said they are planning to check pull requests in the team’s Github repos today (a review/report of the issues is now posted here).
@mikeschroder did a little handbook change review this week, and hopes to do more this week. Also committed the change to invalidate opcode cache on update in core, and has requested testing.
Next Meeting
The next meetings will be in the #hosting-community channel on July 08, 2020 at 09:00 UTC and July 08, 2020 at 18:00 UTC
Hope to see you then!