Stephen Edgar – @netweb

Member Since: December 28th, 2005
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: netweb.com.au
GitHub: ntwb
Job Title: Web Engineer
Employer: Human Made
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Bio

#bbPress developer and core committer https://bbpress.org

#WordPress & BuddyPress Build/Test Tools component maintainer

You can find me on WordPress Slack as @netweb, Twitter as @netweb, GitHub as @ntwb.

Interests

bbPress, BuddyPress, and WordPress

WordPress Origin Story

I came to WordPress via my use of Dave Winer’s OPML Editor back in 2005, Dave wanted to know if WordPress supported the Metaweblog API, next thing the OPML Editor was hooked up to WordPress.com.

Contributions

Stephen Edgar contributes 4 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Documentation, Meta, Polyglots, Support.

Contribution History

bbPress Contributor
bbPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Team
Meta Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Closed ticket #2885, in bbPress Trac:
Utilize Travis CI cache for NodeJS modules

6 hours ago
Committed [6962] to bbPress Trac:
Build Tools: Cache `node_modules` folder in Travis CI Fixes #2885.

6 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post Javascript Chat Summary: Tuesday, November 5, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think this could be a good experiment, historically IDE/Editor changes that were decided to…

6 hours ago
Committed [6947] to bbPress Trac:
Build Tools: Use Node.js 8.x

5 days ago
Committed [6946] to bbPress Trac:
Build Tools: Disable PHPUnit Speed Tester

5 days ago
Committed [6945] to bbPress Trac:
Build Tools: Update SASS Node.js modules

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Slack channel for communicating across language variant teams, on the site Translate WordPress:
I agree with many of the concerns you've outlined above Dion, and as I said…

1 week ago
Closed ticket #4572, in Meta Trac:
HelpHub Plugin on es_ES Rosetta Site

3 weeks ago
Committed [6912] to bbPress Trac:
Styling: Updade styles and stylelint config per latest coding standards

4 weeks ago
Closed ticket #4615, in Meta Trac:
HelpHub Plugin on ko_KR Rosetta Site

1 month ago
Closed ticket #4581, in Meta Trac:
HelpHub Plugin on ru_RU rosetta Site

1 month ago
Closed ticket #4580, in Meta Trac:
HelpHub Plugin on it_IT Rosetta Site

1 month ago
Closed ticket #4523, in Meta Trac:
HelpHub Plugin on pt_BR Rosetta Site

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post New Design for HelpHub: Home and Category pages, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I agree, maybe some CSS Grid and/or Flexbox could help us achieve this with the…

1 month ago
Closed ticket #4755, in Meta Trac:
Establish browser requirements

1 month ago
Closed ticket #4472, in Meta Trac:
Improve BuddyPress Trac's header for mobile devices

3 months ago
Committed [9122] to Meta Trac:
BuddyPress/bbPress: add `#wporg-header` styling to site-specific CSS ...

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP Notify Kick weekly meeting agenda for 2 September 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I made the suggestion in Slack here that rather than calling the project "WP Notify"…

3 months ago
Closed ticket #4673, in Meta Trac:
"My url" in Core > My Patches is incorrect

3 months ago
Committed [6907] to bbPress Trac:
Coding Standards: Add missing trailing semi-colon from [6893]

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:
Maybe continue to ship them until "major" updates are implemented, the current thinking is to…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing the WordPress e2e tests, on the site Make WordPress Core:
You should be able to override the configuration with your own Jest configuration file or…

5 months ago
Created a new ticket, #47631, in Core Trac:
Twenty Nineteen: Update `package.json` with latest versions to pass ...

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript chat summary, May 28th, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To follow up on the dependabot discussion: https://github.blog/2019-05-23-introducing-new-ways-to-keep-your-code-secure/#automated-security-fixes-with-dependabot With the help of Dependabot, GitHub will…

6 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4478, in Meta Trac:
Add an `.editorconfig` file to the root of the meta repo

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updated Editor Interface, on the site Translate WordPress:
This looks awesome, thanks to everyone who has contributed to making this happen.

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done, thanks @leap13 👍

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Asia Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Australia and New Zealand are in both the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions but not…

8 months ago
Created a topic, Test: HelpHub URLs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a test https://wordpress.org/support/article/…

8 months ago
Closed ticket #42387, in Core Trac:
Trim the Travis CI job matrix even further for older branches

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Replacing SVN with Git for wordcamp.org’s code, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Git mirrors already exist for the meta repo at: > git://meta.git.wordpress.org/ Via https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/01/15/git-mirrors-for-wordpress/ Is it…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: How could we improve the WordPress Community Summit?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
It could have been the Paris summit, but one of them I recall lots of…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Reverting the Bulk Ticket Closing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There were ~25 tickets, I manually deleted each comment, by deleting the comment it reverts…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Reverting the Bulk Ticket Closing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks, but no thanks, please exclude the "Build/Test Tools" as I've just reverted this component…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Reverting the Bulk Ticket Closing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
How are you going to "reopen" the tickets? If the "wontfix" comment is deleted, then…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: How could we improve the WordPress Community Summit?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Ensure the BuddyPress and bbPress teams are included

9 months ago
Committed [6900] to bbPress Trac:
Docs: Correct descriptions for various admin settings.

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow Up on Recent Trac Bulk Edit, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There were 2 tickets closed in the Build/Test Tools component that I plan on reopening,…

10 months ago
Closed ticket #43897, in Core Trac:
Coding standards: audit a few occurrences of CSS font-weight using ...

10 months ago
Created a new ticket, #45664, in Core Trac:
Update `grunt-sass` to v3 and add `node-sass` v4

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp US 2018 Contributor Day, on the site Make WordPress Training:
Glad you had a constructive day :)

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating the Minimum PHP Version, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Based on the current stats that is 24.9% of WordPress installs using PHP versions 5.2…

11 months ago
Closed ticket #39222, in Core Trac:
Add JavaScript date helpers

12 months ago
Closed ticket #3228, in bbPress Trac:
CSS Coding Standard - Use double quotes

1 year ago
Created a topic, Test: Developer URLs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://developer.wordpress.org/?s=get_cat https://de…

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Melbourne, on the site WordCamp Melbourne:
Organizers note: Please update the portions with red text. We're happy to announce that WordCamp…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Test: Blockquotes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Test: Blockquotes Test: Blockquotes Test: Blockquotes

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #45149, in Core Trac:
Configure NPM to save exact versions

1 year ago
Reopened ticket #43075, in Core Trac:
Use tabs for indentation in `package.json`

1 year ago
Reopened ticket #45119, in Core Trac:
Add a way to build packages scripts to `/src` folder.

1 year ago

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