Comments on: Plugin Authors: Organize Bug Reports and Feature Requests Using the WordPress Plugin Repository

By: LobsterMan

LobsterMan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:06:17 +0000

I didn’t know the 2 sites were related.
I tired submitting my plugin to wordpress extend, but i didn’t have time to figure out the whole svn thing.
But I think I should try again, I have to many support requests in comments to even follow

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:31:39 +0000

bubazoo,

There are numerous tools to help with svn’s headaches. For Mac there is svnX and for Windows there is TortoiseSVN. I’ve also written a tutorial on how to list our plugin.

By: bubazoo

bubazoo — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:13:01 +0000

subversion SUCKS though. unless you have your own server, you can’t run subversion anyway, and even if you do, it difficult to setup.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:32:09 +0000

@Kirk,
That’s good news. Yes, most bugs tend to be feature requests in disguise.

SEOMonitor,
While true, not all bugs can be caught. There are so many server configurations, WordPress versions, theme releases, and conflicting plugins that it’s impossible to get it all right straight out of the gate.

By: SEOMonitor

SEOMonitor — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:10:28 +0000

I have been developing a plugin and I can say with confidence that if you test your plugin before release you won’t have so many darn bugs!

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:09:30 +0000

Hey Ron,

I’ve been looking more ways to be involved with the WordPress community and I didn’t think of this. Many thanks!

As Aaron stated, having bugs being reported through several different mediums can be obviously frustrating so if folks can get used to reporting legitimate bugs using this avenue, perhaps we wouldn’t drive as many plugin authors into various mental health centers as often.

Of course the phrase “legitimate bugs” is always a factor isn’t it?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:18:20 +0000

@Ronald: All plugins are now available! Thank you very much for your efforts

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:38:36 +0000

Excellent post Ronald. I’ve looked into writing a post about this sort of thing but I’m glad you beat me too it. Hopefully, this brings to light the advantages of using the features that the repository provides and causes more plugin authors to use the service.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:07 +0000

I use the dev to keep track of what changes I make to my plugins between versions to make it easier to write the changelog, but I never considered using it for bug reports.

It would make it so much easier because I have a tendency to get bug reports and feature requests in emails, comments on the extend page, in forums, on the main plugin page, on its readme page. It gets so chaotic that stuff slips through all the time.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:45:45 +0000

@Jan,
It would appear there are many plugins not listed. I’ll look into it.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:09:34 +0000

@Ronald (01/18/2008 @ 11:46 am)

I am author of these plugins: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ …

* /pandora-feeds-for-wordpress/
* /wptags-4-metakeywords/
* /comment-url-control/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:47:01 +0000

Excellent Ronald, I didn’t even know that was there. Thanks.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:46:06 +0000

Jan,
I could only find one plugin on WP Extend for you. Which plugins do you author?

By: Dodgypress

Dodgypress — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:41:36 +0000

Great Concept

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:16:05 +0000

Try submitting your problem via http://wordpress.org/report-bugs/

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:37:35 +0000

I have three plugins hosted on wordpress.org. But tickets can only be submitted for one of them. The other two are not in the list of components at http://dev.wp-plugins.org/newticket. Where can I get help for this kind of problem?