Plugin Directory: Introduce UI for managing plugin support reps

[SergeyBiryukov]

Background: #2699

Some of the larger plugin/theme shops have a support team to help out on the forums. It would be useful to be able to give those people a special "support rep" role so they could be recognized as such.

Support staff can mark topics as resolved or sticky (same as plugin authors and contributors), but doesn't have commit access.

In order to implement this, Plugin Directory needs a UI for managing the plugin's support staff. The attached patch implements a UI similar to managing committers on the Advanced view.

[SergeyBiryukov]

The patch adds a plugin_support_reps taxonomy for integration with the forums in #2699, and builds on the existing code for managing committers, so while it may seem like there's a lot of new code, it's not really new :)

[SergeyBiryukov]

@Otto42 On committing, I'd suggest using svn cp or TortoiseSVN UI to copy the existing files to new names:

admin/list-table/class-committers.php → admin/list-table/class-support-reps.php
admin/metabox/class-committers.php → admin/metabox/class-support-reps.php
api/routes/class-plugin-committers.php → api/routes/class-plugin-support-reps.php
widgets/class-committers.php → widgets/class-support-reps.php
widgets/js/committers.js → widgets/js/support-reps.js

And then overwriting those new files with the ones from the patch.

That way the files will preserve the existing commit history and only show the actual changes in SVN blame rather than appear as completely new files. Not a big deal, but seems cleaner.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5867:

Plugin Directory: Introduce UI for managing plugin support reps.

Support representatives can mark forum topics as resolved or sticky (same as plugin authors and contributors), but don't have commit access to the plugin.

See #3029, #2699.

[SergeyBiryukov]

@webdevmattcrom ​noted in #meta that adding a support rep doesn't work for accounts that have an email as a username (benmeredithgmailcom in that case). The error is: The provided user could not be found. Adding the same user by email worked fine.

I think special characters are no allowed in WP.org usernames, but it would be great to fix this for older accounts that might be affected.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5910:

Plugin Directory: Clear support reps cache when adding or deleting a support rep.

See #3029.

[SergeyBiryukov]

adding a support rep doesn't work for accounts that have an email as a username (benmeredithgmailcom in that case). The error is: The provided user could not be found.

The same applies to committers, moved to a separate ticket: #3133.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5930:

Plugin Directory: Allow for adding committers and support reps by a slug or email, as the input suggests.

Fixes #3133. See #3029.