Here is the summary of Make Hosting’s third meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 1600 UTC (Slack archive).
Updates
“Best Practices” Documentation
- Some documentation has been sent in from a few sources.
- Keep it coming!
- @voldemortensen will try to get a call for docs up ASAP on the Make Hosting site.
Promoting WordCamps
- @calebb and @smaffulli are working on documentation outlining the available APIs for the Make Hosting site.
- Should be posted in the next few days.
Distributed Unit Tests
- This project is still in need of a lead.
- You’d chat with folks interested in working on the various parts to organize. Everyone will pitch in, but this needs a champion if we’re going to move forward.
- C’mon, people… Doesn’t anybody want to do this?
- Update from @octalmage re: defining a method for reporting back to .org.
- The OpenStack project has a system with similar scope (RefStack) but it might be too hard to generalize.
- The approach is that a client runs the tests, gets an XML output and feeds that into the RefStack server. (Example test results)
- The tests need to be run on the exact server setup that users are going to be on.
- This way, things like the ImageMagick issue that recently affected a few hosts will be caught early.
- There was a long discussion around potential methods that could be used.
- @octalmage agreed to collect the thoughts around this conversation for a future Make Hosting post.
Security
- @aaroncampbell posted a disclosure of an additional fix in 4.7.x regarding an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in a REST API Endpoint.
Feedback
Miss this meeting? Want to pitch in on one of the initiatives above? Please feel free to drop into the comments and share your thoughts.
Next Meeting
Our next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 1600 UTC. If you can make that work with your schedule, we’d love to have you. Hope to see even more of you next week! 😃