Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2025-10-01

Hello Hosters! The team’s upcoming meetings will be in the #hosting SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel on Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 0900 UTC and Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 1800 UTC. Hope to see you there!

Agenda

WordPress News

• 6.8.3 Release
• What’s new in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 21.7? (24 September)
• WordPress and Higher Education: An Alliance that Transforms
• CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. Program Team: Proposal: team communication flows
• WP A11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Docs update September 2025
• Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9
• Discussion on retiring some English locales

HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Team Time

• Runner/Reporter error
• Test Runner tickets

Co-working on Open Space
The following tickets needs to be reviewed:

• hosting-handbook/pull/349 (needs 2 reviews)
• ​​hosting-handbook/pull/350 (needs 2nd review)
• phpunit-test-runner/pull/282 (needs merging)
• phpunit-test-runner/pull/221 (needs someone to pick this up and work on it)
• phpunit-test-runner/pull/138 (needs testing)
• phpunit-test-runner/issues/266 (needs someone to work on it)

Open Floor