Here’s the summary of the second meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 1600 UTC (Slack archive).
Updates
“Best Practices” Documentation
The current idea is to build a public handbook of the best practices that are generally used in hosting. This could be a variety of topics (and doesn’t need to be a single team).
- Will probably include things like:
- Server configuration requirements.
- Recommendations.
- Common scaling configurations.
- Deployment.
- Need reps from each host that wants to participate to send a sanitized copy of the following information to @voldemortensen (contact on Slack for E-Mail address if needed):
- Default
php.ini. - Default nginx, Varnish, httpd configs.
- What modules you include with PHP.
- PHP versions offered
- Any changes you make to default
wp-config.php. - Any
mu-pluginsyou include and their purpose.
- Default
- Data will be aggregated so it can be grokked and discussion can happen around the differences.
- There’ll be a Make Hosting blog post on the aggregated data.
- It was pointed out that some hosts might not want to share all of the above. Whatever they would like to share is welcome.
- Request for additional volunteers.
- @nemanjac offered their assistance.
Promoting WordCamps
- WordCamps have an official list available, with a simple API call.
- Returns JSON with all approved events.
- Meetup.com has an API.
- All WordPress meetups are in one single, easy to identify spot.
- PoC code pulling from WordPress.org and Meetup.com.
- https://github.com/squidboylan/wordpress-meetup-scraper
- Builds a combined JSON containing events from both.
- Easy to filter out recent events only, or by proximity.
- To start, we need a post/page that details what information the current APIs offer, and how to reach them.
- Where are these URLs?
- What is returned in the JSON?
- Link existing PoC tools.
- @smaffulli is down to do this.
- Scope is narrow enough that no additional people appear to be needed at this time.
Security Discussion
WordPress Security Czar @aaroncampbell wants to make sure the WordPress Security Team and hosts work together as much as possible.
- WordPress has a security notifications list.
- It’s only for established hosting companies.
- It’s meant to give you a day or two to prepare for any security issues before a security release.
- Also trying out a channel meant for hosts to be able to discuss security issues, potential fixes, etc.
- Private message @aaroncampbell for more information on list and/or channel.
- He’ll give a primer on what is expected/needed from you, what can’t be shared, etc.
Distributed Unit Tests
The idea is to end up with a common framework for hosts running WordPress tests on their platforms. Also, we’re looking to send reports on tests back to .org. This will allow for more complete testing on actual deployments.
- @jorbin has some posts about it, with some scoping here:
- https://daily.jorb.in/2016/05/31/wordpress-automated-testing-next-gen/
- @danielbachhuber shared some tools he worked on for Pantheon in last week’s meeting notes:
- https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2017/01/18/hosting-meeting-notes-january-18-2017/#comment-10
- The current biggest need is to have someone lead the cause.
- The project can’t get started without someone to steer the ship.
- It doesn’t need to be a host that coordinates it.
- It’s helpful if someone who at least hosts their own installs.
- At the very least they should have a testbed for the necessary parts.
- It doesn’t need to be a host that coordinates it.
- @mikehansenme, @mikeschroder, @joshkoenig, and @octalmage are willing to champion this at their respective hosts.
- @octalmage kindly offered to look into defining the method for reporting back to .org.
- The project can’t get started without someone to steer the ship.
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 1, 2017 at 1600 UTC. If you can fit that into your schedule, great! We’d love it if you could attend. Hope to see even more of you next week! 😃