Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 at 1800 UTC

(Slack archive).

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-releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 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 PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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 TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket when they have information to do so.

Hosting Best Practices Documentation

• @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 sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. 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

Request for Help!

• 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, deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors.… 
  • Specifically, this would be running on cron to check updates (core, plugins and themes)

Feedback

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Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, January 17th, 2017 at 1800 UTC. Hope to see you then!

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