Weekly Hosting Team Meeting 2024-07-03

[javiercasares]

Hosting Team meeting agenda 2024-07-03

EXCERPT:

PUBLIC AGENDA URL:

⇾

PUBLIC SUMMARY URL (if needed):

⇾

Agenda

WordPress Community

• WordPress Core news
• WordPress Community news

Hosting Team Time

• Some news
• Post Discussion: WordPress 6.6 Server Compatibility

Hosting Team To-Do

• Hosting / Test badges
• Hosting Directory Plugin
• Documentation update for WordPress 6.6

Open Floor

• Anything not in the agenda

Closing

• Next Meeting Times

Meeting

/here [meeting type="hosting"] Who's here to chat about hosting?

👋 A warm welcome to all WordPress hosting enthusiasts! We're here to dive into the exciting world of WordPress hosting and development. Have questions? Looking for more information? Check out Make/Hosting for comprehensive guides and updates.

🥇 Participants in the Five for the Future program, we'd love to recognize your contributions! Please share your WordPress.org username in a thread here 👉

🤗 Newcomers, we're thrilled to have you on board! You are welcome to introduce yourself and share your experience or what you hope to contribute to WordPress. 👉

Agenda

🟢 Here is the agenda for this meeting

[…] Use the agenda above […]

Would anyone like to add to or change any items on the agenda?

OK, let's get started with the WordPress Community news.

WordPress Community

🟢 WordPress Core news

• WordPress 6.6 Field Guide
• WordPress 6.6 RC2

🟢 WordPress Community news

• bbPress 2.6.11 is out!
• Recap of the Contributor Working Group’s Mentorship Chat on June 20th 2024

Ok, let's move on to Hosting Team time.

Hosting Team Time!

🟢 Some news

• Hosting Directory: Next Steps
• The Image Revolution: AVIF and WebP
• Dropping support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1
• Add support for custom ports in multisite site addresses

🟢 Post Discussion: WordPress 6.6 Server Compatibility

#243

We've reviewed the major release WordPress version compatibility post. If you have any suggestion, please, leave it in the comments. Should we add anything else?

The idea is to publish the post next week (1 week before WP6.6 launches).

Hosting Team To-Do

🟢 Hosting / Test badges

Are "bots" and their maintainers Test contributors? Some days ago we opened a discussion: #241

Next Steps:

• All "bots" can ask for the Hosting badge.
• People setting the "bots" can ask for the Hosting badge.
• Team: ask the test team for giving the badge to the testers.

🟢 Hosting Directory Plugin

Next Steps:

• Prepare a first document with documentation.

🟢 Documentation update for WordPress 6.6

Next Steps:

• Review and update the Server Environment page.
• Review and update the WordPress Compatibility page.
• Review and update the Upgrading WordPress page.

🟩 Open Floor

Ok, if nothing else, let's move on to the Open Floor. You are welcome to bring any topic up for discussion at this time.

…

Closing

🟩 Meeting Times

• 2024-07-10 0900 UTC
• 2024-07-17 1800 UTC
• 2024-07-24 0900 UTC
• 2024-08-07 1800 UTC
• 2024-08-14 0900 UTC
• 2024-08-21 1800 UTC
• 2024-08-28 0900 UTC

Goodbye

That wraps up today's meeting. Please keep in mind, our discussions can continue in the #hosting Slack channel or on Make/Hosting anytime.

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week! [/meeting]