Plugin Directory: Readme Validator thinks valid Readme is invalid

[Ipstenu]

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/readme-validator/

If you paste in ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/readme.txt (or use it as the link) it thinks it's wrong and tells you it's missing values that are, in fact, there.

Also tested it with Hello Dolly - ​https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hello-dolly/trunk/readme.txt - and it says that the tested up to field is missing. Which it's not.

[Otto42]

In my testing, this is not the case.

For the example file, it specifically doesn't like "=== Plugin Name ===" and this is intentional, since we expect authors to change the plugin name line in their readme, so the parser fails for that specifically. It also complains about the Contributors line not having valid ID's in it. Once you make those changes, then it passes.

For Hello Dolly, it doesn't complain about the tested up to line. Instead, it says these:

The Requires PHP field is missing. It should be defined here, or in your main plugin file.
No == Frequently Asked Questions == section was found
No == Changelog == section was found
No == Upgrade Notice == section was found
No == Screenshots == section was found
No donate link was found

All of which are true.

Edit: Just updated my sandbox and can reproduce this, which means that it is a recent change. Probably [10429]. Will examine it.

[Otto42]

In 10430:

Plugin Directory: Readme Parser: Allow data:text/plain streams to pass through parse_readme() also, to allow them to become plain contents before parsing them. Fixes #5502, corrects [10429].