Jake Spurlock

Member Since: October 3rd, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: jakespurlock.com
GitHub: whyisjake
Job Title: Technical Account Engineer
Employer: Automattic / WordPress VIP
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Bio

Jake is a Technical Account Engineer at Automattic.

Interests

Photography, skiing, and WordPress…

Contributions Sponsored

Jake Spurlock contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Meta.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Security Team
Security Team
Theme Developer
Theme Developer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Committed [46707] to Core Trac:
Tests: Fix a typo in an inline comment. Fix a regression from ...

3 days ago
Closed ticket #48543, in Core Trac:
Uncaught TypeError in comment-reply.js when 'id_form' is not 'commentform'

3 days ago
Committed [46706] to Core Trac:
Comments: Check if comment form element exists before adding a key ...

3 days ago
Created a new ticket, #48521, in Core Trac:
Add a Github Security Policy

1 week ago
Committed [46654] to Core Trac:
REST API: Fix for Yoda condition. Little coding standards fix for the ...

1 week ago
Committed [46653] to Core Trac:
Revert: Undo r46639. This was meant to be committed to /trunk. See ...

1 week ago
Committed [46643] to Core Trac:
Coding Standards: Clean up the tests around ...

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #19647, in Core Trac:
Use add_node() instead of add_menu() in core

2 weeks ago
Committed [46642] to Core Trac:
Toolbar: Use `add_node()` instead of `add_menu()` in core. This patch ...

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #38744, in Core Trac:
Can't login with email address that contains an apostrophe

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #4820, in Meta Trac:
`is_500` and `is_offline` missing from the VVV meta environment.

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #4820, in Meta Trac:
`is_500` and `is_offline` missing from the VVV meta environment.

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to Image Processing in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Decisions, not Options

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Twenty Twenty, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Beautiful! 👏

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.2.3 RC 1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.2.3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available for testing! So please do – every…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Asia Logo: A Design Journey, on the site WordCamp Asia 2020:
Great work, beautiful logo!

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.2.3 Release Planning, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This timeline looks great, I think we have a great opportunity to fix some issues…

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4668, in Meta Trac:
Can I get my user name fixed on the trac committer list?

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The decision to upgrade should be in the hands of the owner of the web…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think there are questions around agency, consent, legalities, business impact for hosting providers, business…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's the cool thing about this then, you would be able to follow your current…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Examples of coordination here: https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That would def. be done, and many hosts have moved into the managed side of…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would think in this scenario then you might have a deploy process that is…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
From a hosting perspective, do you have any stats on percentages on older versions? I…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post plugins.svn is very slow, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
/me wonders what you did...

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There is an option to only allow minor updates while ignoring major. I would imagine…

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Almost six years ago, WordPress 3.7 was released and one the of the major features…

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4614, in Meta Trac:
Can we get a security team badge?

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Seattle 2019 is looking for sponsors, on the site WordCamp Central:
GoodOne!!!!!!

4 months ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp for Publishers: Columbus 2019 coming up on August 7th

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Get Involved table at WCEU 2019, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+make.wordpress.org/security

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, Github: wordpress/wordpress-develop-security to track svn, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
n I would like to setup syncing here: /wordpress/wordpress-develop-security to track SVN with branches and…

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3984, in Meta Trac:
Plugin Repository URI

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp US Contributor Day: What Should We Work On?, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This might be something to work on, it might be something that already kind of…

11 months ago
Committed [1932618] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.5.5

1 year ago
Committed [1932614] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.5

1 year ago
Committed [1931918] to Plugins Trac:
Adding the tagged version.

1 year ago
Committed [1931290] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.0

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Will this plugin still work?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, still works.

1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP-CLI v2.0.0 Release Notes, on the site WP-CLI:
Great looking release, congrats wp-cli team!

1 year ago
Committed [1692036] to Plugins Trac:
Add the settings pages.

2 years ago
Committed [1692035] to Plugins Trac:
Add a space.

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp for Publishers: Denver 2017 coming up on August 17th

2 years ago
Released a new plugin, New Tab Always

3 years ago
Committed [1523547] to Plugins Trac:
Let's get this going.

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 4.7: What’s on your mind?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19629 please.

3 years ago
Committed [1394361] to Plugins Trac:
Update to bring the better readme, and filter handling

4 years ago
Committed [1383568] to Plugins Trac:
Bump the tested number.

4 years ago
Committed [1383565] to Plugins Trac:
Update to 0.5.2

4 years ago