Hosting Meeting Notes: January 10, 2018

Distributed Testing

Cloudways and Human Made are now reporting results! That brings us to 5 hosts reporting results!
Has the DU project caught any bugs pre-release yet to anyone's knowledge?
- As of the meeting, there had been no data analysis yet
- A bug related to an incorrect dependency with `allowfopenurl` that resulted in a ticket
- So far all hosts that have set testing up, have found things to correct
  - Usually it’s PHP extensions or configuration that aren't quite compatible with WordPress
  - DreamHost, for example, found issues with Imagick due to a regression that would have been caught if the tests had been running in an automated fashion
  - Goals for the end of Q1:
    - Getting the core Travis CI data into the database so we have it as a point of comparison.
    - Prototyping sending an email to the reporting account if host tests fail and core tests have not
      - Will need some language around "here's what you should do about it"
    - @mikeschroder suggested that getting things fixed will probably be connected to #hosting-community at first, until we have a pattern.
    - There was consensus between folks present that hosts could/should create a Trac ticket when they have information to do so.

@mikeschroder's commented on the reliability page but they still need to be reviewed
Other feedback is still welcome!
Target audience
- More ops folks contributing to the docs would help, so that we end up with the details they want.
- A lot of the feedback @mikeschroder gave for the reliability article was that it seemed like it was focused towards an end user, rather than someone operating a site.
- Looking at other open source project documentation for "good examples".
  - Drupal’s PHP Requirements doc has some good stuff in it, with relation to the extended PHP compatibility docs we’ve been building

Look at the test results page for the phpunit-test-reporter
- Suggestions/issues can be added here: phpunit-test-reporter/issues.
Call for thoughts and feedback on this issue.
Help with reviewing the Reliability page of the handbook by providing feedback
@andrewtaylor-1 has a side project he would like some collaboration from another host on. Contact him directly for more details
- Idea is to use automated testing on CircleCI (have visual regression, working to add Lighthouse) to bulk update WordPress sites, run the tests, then if things pass, deploy…
- Specifically, this would be running on cron to check updates (core, plugins and themes)

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