Oh dear, I know the feel. I was lucky that I only updated on my dev machines (basically docker containers), and that my hosting provider doesn't offer 8 yet.
Lucky because a couple of plugins (and I only use 1-3 depending on the install), broke the website. Most of my clients and containers would be fine, but there's one or two that I know can't update yet.
What bothers me is how those plugin owners (Sucuri, mostly) don't have a public git repo where you can submit a pull request to :(
Yep, probably you should look into SVN, which is the official tracking system of the WordPress ecosystem. However, i often do "freeze" a production website and clone it onto a staging server where i test every new update (even core). Only after that, i move onto production and not before having waited at lease a couple of weeks (unless it's some sort of important security update).
I don't think SVN and GIT by themselves do issue tracking, though they may support tagging of issue numbers, they don't offer any ways to publicise ways to work with said repo. I think SourceForge is used for many SVN repos, and GitHub for many git repos.
No no, i mean you have always to contact the devs via the wordpress.org (if it's free) repo. On SVN you might find hints of the current bug tracking, but that's not a standard.
@matthijsewoud, WordPress plugins are released into their SVN (although I think most plugin developers, like me, do use git for development), and WP offers an issue tracker and contact options on the plugin pages on wordpress.org, so could try to contact the developers to tell them you are actually interested in contributing fixes.
That's true, and it is a valid way to contact them.
It just sort of feels empty, and hard to navigate around? When you post an issue or pull request on GitHub, you you they see it; it's out there. If someone else has the same issue or wants to help, they know the pull request is already there.
The WP issue tracker, as far as I can tell, is just simple forum. Or rather, a subforum of the WordPress support pages, dedicated to that one plugin. There's no tags, and developer feedback is, well, minimal. It just feels like contacting the void, rather than the developers.
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Oh dear, I know the feel. I was lucky that I only updated on my dev machines (basically docker containers), and that my hosting provider doesn't offer 8 yet.
Lucky because a couple of plugins (and I only use 1-3 depending on the install), broke the website. Most of my clients and containers would be fine, but there's one or two that I know can't update yet.
What bothers me is how those plugin owners (Sucuri, mostly) don't have a public git repo where you can submit a pull request to :(
Yep, probably you should look into SVN, which is the official tracking system of the WordPress ecosystem. However, i often do "freeze" a production website and clone it onto a staging server where i test every new update (even core). Only after that, i move onto production and not before having waited at lease a couple of weeks (unless it's some sort of important security update).
I don't think SVN and GIT by themselves do issue tracking, though they may support tagging of issue numbers, they don't offer any ways to publicise ways to work with said repo. I think SourceForge is used for many SVN repos, and GitHub for many git repos.
No no, i mean you have always to contact the devs via the wordpress.org (if it's free) repo. On SVN you might find hints of the current bug tracking, but that's not a standard.
@matthijsewoud, WordPress plugins are released into their SVN (although I think most plugin developers, like me, do use git for development), and WP offers an issue tracker and contact options on the plugin pages on wordpress.org, so could try to contact the developers to tell them you are actually interested in contributing fixes.
That's true, and it is a valid way to contact them.
It just sort of feels empty, and hard to navigate around? When you post an issue or pull request on GitHub, you you they see it; it's out there. If someone else has the same issue or wants to help, they know the pull request is already there.
The WP issue tracker, as far as I can tell, is just simple forum. Or rather, a subforum of the WordPress support pages, dedicated to that one plugin. There's no tags, and developer feedback is, well, minimal. It just feels like contacting the void, rather than the developers.