Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 months ago
#5496 closed enhancement (fixed)
Hide author for closed plugins
Reported by: | dd32 | Owned by: | dd32 |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Component: | Plugin Directory | Keywords: | |
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Description
Permanently closed plugins continue to show the Author of plugins that are removed. While I appreciate the plugin-now-closed placeholder, I question the need to keep the Authorship & Developer details public.
For example, I've just closed a test plugin of mine: https://wordpress.org/plugins/test-plugin-4/
The plugin continues to show
By Me!
in the headerdd32
under theContributors & Developers
header with the“Test Plugin 4” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
text.
I propose we remove these two pieces of data.
This also aids in how we handle plugins whose owners have requested data anonymization as this will remove the empty (or "anonymous 12345") texts.
Change History (4)
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4 years ago
Yes Perma-closes, which I guess in some places is considered closed for more than x days? I don't actually know the logic for it off the top of my head.
If it's temporary, yeah they can stay.
We're just talking perma-closes? I'm 100% okay with that :)