credits API should return the correct version

[markoheijnen]

You could request data for a version that the API doesn't support. It then fallsback to WP_CORE_STABLE_BRANCH except the requested version is still displayed. We should then return the actual version so you can that validate your request.

Also any way we could provide data for versions older then 3.2?

[markoheijnen]

Any feedback on this?

[ramiy]

Replying to markoheijnen:

Also any way we could provide data for versions older then 3.2?

Just installed wp3.2, wp31 and wp30 to create the WP_31_Credits and WP_30_Credits classes for the API.

But is seems like credits.php was added only in 3.2, this is why the API supports only 3.2+

If you have this data for older versions, I can write the code.

I need:

• a list of users:
  • Project Leaders
  • Extended Core Team
  • Recent Rockstars
  • Core Contributors
• a list of external libraries

[ramiy]

The full list of "Core Contributors" can be found in blog release post:

3.2: ​https://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/
3.1: ​https://wordpress.org/news/2011/02/threeone/
3.0: ​https://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/thelonious/

We can retrieve the "external libraries" using the change log of the next version.

[SergeyBiryukov]

577.diff​ looks good to me.

[coffee2code]

In 5133:

Credits API: Return 'version' value that matches the data being returned.

For invalid version requests (e.g. something pre-3.2 or post-WP_CORE_STABLE_BRANCH), the Credits API returns data for WP_CORE_STABLE_BRANCH. In such cases the 'version' value in the response was the invalid version being requested.

The returned 'version' should instead reflect the version that matches the data. API consumers can compare their requested version to the response version to see if the fallback (current stable) is being returned.

Props markoheijnen.
Fixes #577.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to markoheijnen:

Also any way we could provide data for versions older then 3.2?

Follow-up: #4697