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 and the release lead on the Core Security team.

Interests

Photography, skiing, and WordPress…

Contributions Sponsored

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

Contribution History

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

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Committed [48433] to Core Trac:
Formatting: Prevent wp_slash from returning non-strings as strings. ...

2 days ago
Closed ticket #33756, in Core Trac:
Improve docs for sanitize_title()

2 days ago
Committed [48432] to Core Trac:
Formatting: Improve the docblock for `sanitize_title()`. Since ...

2 days ago
Committed [48431] to Core Trac:
Coding Standards: Ensure strict type check. See [48429], #33591.

2 days ago
Closed ticket #33591, in Core Trac:
Media File Missing Length Causes WordPress Atom Feed to Be Invalid

2 days ago
Committed [48429] to Core Trac:
Feeds: Ensure that enclosures produce valid XML. Metadata that is ...

2 days ago
Closed ticket #37384, in Core Trac:
Text alignment in options-discussion.php

3 days ago
Committed [48419] to Core Trac:
Administration: Better align labels on the discussion options page. ...

3 days ago
Closed ticket #50516, in Core Trac:
Use ARIA button class on plugin and theme auto-updates action links

3 days ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 8th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Also, @davidbaumwald will…

5 days ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 1st, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's July! Holy smokes. Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today:…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Rename “invalid”, “worksforme”, and “wontfix” ticket resolutions, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for June 24th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think that while this a good idea, we wouldn't be able to remove the…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for June 24th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Update all git repositories to use `main` instead of `master`, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1000

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for June 17th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Extensible Core Sitemaps, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Do search engines have a way to discover sitemaps? Something like a link in the…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for June 10th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Core Sitemaps merge announcement: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/10/merge-announcement-extensible-core-sitemaps/

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for June 9th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Core Team Reps for 2020+, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Congrats!

1 month ago
Committed [2316944] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 0.1.4 from GitHub

1 month ago
Committed [2316934] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 0.1.3 from GitHub

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for June 3rd, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
👋 Howdy, y'all. Here is the agenda for the weekly core dev chat happening tomorrow:…

1 month ago
Committed [2316921] to Plugins Trac:
Let's get this added.

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post 2020 WordPress Release Squads, on the site Make WordPress Core:
💥 This looks great! Excited about being part of 5.5 and 5.6!

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for May 27, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
For 5.4.2, we are looking to bring the changes in #49956 all the way back…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd love to help more with this release. What's the role of the release coordinator?…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Plugins & Themes Auto-Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The constants have been removed, but the filters are still there. wp_themes_auto_update_enabled and wp_plugins_auto_update_enabled.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Plugins & Themes Auto-Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would be much more inclined to enable auto-updates for plugins knowing that these ONLY…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Plugins & Themes Auto-Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Kudos to @audrasjb for the excellent work leading this project!

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Why class-wp-query.php was changed in WordPress 5.4.1?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there @mypacecreator. That query type was tricky to negotiate down to a single post…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5: Call for Tickets, on the site Make WordPress Core:
/cc @audrasjb

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5: Call for Tickets, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Forgot to mention this, but I think that bringing the plugin and theme auto-updates into…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Chat Summary: 22nd April, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jorgefilipecosta shared a comment prior to the meeting detailing the plan for 5.4.1 which was…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Chat Agenda: 22nd April, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Planning for the 5.4.1 release Wednesday at 16:00 UTC.

3 months ago
Committed [2286073] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 1.0.1 from GitHub

3 months ago
Committed [2286072] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 1.0.0 from GitHub

3 months ago
Committed [2257843] to Plugins Trac:
Bump the version

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for volunteers: Release Model Working Group, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also interested, looking for ways to get security releases out a little faster...

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for December 4, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thursday + Thursday would be great.

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for December 4, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m available for the proposed release, but unavailable for the chat today. Schedule is feeling…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: November 20, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
👆✖️💯

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.3 Retrospective – Call for feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think WordPress needs to move back to a scheduled, predictable release cycle. Totally agree,…

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

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

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

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

10 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…

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

11 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…

11 months ago