Set the local environment to a development environment type by default

[johnbillion]

Follow-up to #33161.

The local Docker-based environment should populate the WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE constant with a value of development by default.

See tools/local-env/scripts/install.js.

[igorradovanov]

Hi @johnbillion,

Is this issue still open?

I would like to work on this one.

[johnbillion]

@igorradovanov Yes! Please feel free to go ahead.

This change populates the new WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE variable for the local development environment with the value of 'development' using the WordPress CLI.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50903

[igorradovanov]

Replying to johnbillion:

@igorradovanov Yes! Please feel free to go ahead.

Thanks, John.

Just submitted the first patch via the GitHub mirror.

We have a local environment type now that we could use instead. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51064

@TimothyBJacobs I agree with you that 'local' would be a better env type in this case. Let's see what @johnbillion thinks of this since the trac was originally raised to set the value to 'development'.

Yeah local would be better, thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks Timothy and John.

The latest patch has been applied. Travis CI is running the checks.

Switched development to local in the .env file.

[johnbillion]

In 49121:

Build/Test Tools: Set the local development environment to a local environment type by default.

Props igorradovanov, TimothyBlynJacobs

Fixes #50903

See #33161

Merged into WP Core in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/49121

[desrosj]

This should be backported to the 5.5 branch, since environment type was added in that version.

[desrosj]

In 49339:

Build/Test Tools: Set the local development environment to a local environment type by default.

Props igorradovanov, TimothyBlynJacobs, johnbillion.
Merges [49121] to the 5.5 branch.
See #50903.