Web Hosts and Database A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it. Admins: your testing and feedback on the WordPress 7.0 Real Time Collaboration (“RTC”) feature is requested, to help ensure that 7.0 performs as expected on all hosting 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. infrastructure.
While at least two additional Release Candidates will be made available, your testing is needed on or before end of day on May 4th in order to understand the best direction for the underlying architecture of the RTC feature. While thorough testing has been done, it’s been done in a limited set of environments, and it’s crucial to have data covering as wide a spread as possible of WordPress environments to set the feature up for success.
This feature isn’t just for large sites with multiple privileged users creating content. It’s a big step forward in the phase 3 roadmap that opens the door to many new possibilities, some of which aren’t known. Participating in setting a strong foundation now helps set all of WordPress up for success in what comes next. Part of these new opportunities includes agentic collaborators and future phase 3 features, like suggestion mode.
Your help testing now should assure compatibility on your systems, lower support volumes upon the release of 7.0, and make sure your customers are ready for the next phase of WordPress. This is a critical time to get involved in the future of the platform. Your participation ensures that WordPress can make decisions that are informed by hosts representing the wide range of sites that WordPress powers.
Thank you to all hosts who are helping to test!
How to test?
A test suite has been created by Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. for testing RTC. These scripts have been designed in a way that only requires a few environment variables to be present with only 4 dependencies; bash, cURL, WP-CLI, and patch.
The ENVIRONMENT_NAME environment variable in particular is critical. This is a freeform text field that allows you to specify a short yet detailed description of the hosting configuration to help group results from similar types of hosting. Some examples:
- Shared basic
- Shared performance
- VPS A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.
- Managed eCommerce
- Shared Ultra
Note: Please do not include details like PHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. or MariaDB MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary parity and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands./MySQL MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. versions in the environment name. These are sent over separately and independently of the environment name.
The most useful data you can contribute is data that represents your actual user base, not your new-install setup. If most of your customers are on PHP 7.4 with no object In computer science, an object can be a variable, a data structure, a function, or a method, and as such, is a value in memory referenced by an identifier. cache A cache is a component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewhere. on shared infrastructure, that’s the configuration needed to see results from.
For detailed instructions, please read the repository’s README.md file.
Submitting test results and feedback
The simplest and best way to participate is by using the test runner to submit test results to WordPress.org (specifically make.wordpress.org/hosting), which the script will attempt automatically when the necessary environment variables are configured correctly.
Reporting results to WordPress.org requires a testing bot account. If you have participated in the PHPUnit host tests in the past, you are encouraged to use the same bot account. This is a great opportunity to check in on your bot as some have not reported results in some time. If you need assistance with your bot, please visit the #hosting channel in slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
You are free to use the same application password, or to login and create a new one. Otherwise, please follow the steps detailed in the README file.
Data Sharing
Unlike the PHPUnit Hosting Tests, the results submitted through this repository will not be shown publicly on a per report basis. This route was chosen because of the ephemeral nature of the need for this data (to make an informed decision leading up to 7.0), and because of the very short timeframe to publish this (building a front end interface would have added time).
All submitted results will be aggregated, analyzed, and shared without indicating which metrics belong to each reporter. As much as possible, they will also be analyzed by hosting type and server A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers. information.If you happen to notice anything that’s particularly concerning or surprising, please investigate and feel free to share a summary in the #feature-realtime-collaboration channel in Slack.
Summary
Hosting is a piece of the WordPress puzzle for every user of the software. Participating in the testing phase of this release is a critical part to ensuring that the release of WordPress 7.0 and the user experience of real-time collaboration is built to the best of WordPress Core’s ability. Thank you for taking the time to collaborate and contribute to making the WordPress software better for users.
Props to @kirasong, @desrosj, @jorbin, @maxschmeling, @alecgeatches, @jmdodd, @mmtr86, @jesse, @annezazu, @griffbrad for collaboration, testing, reviewing, and performing outreach to hosting companies.
