Plugin Directory: Support @username format

[zoonini]

Issue

The list of plugins that an author has contributed to in this view:

​https://profiles.wordpress.org/username/#content-plugins

...appears to be missing those where the author name in the plugin's readme.txt is set to @username instead of just username.

For example:

​https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg/#content-plugins

...is missing this plugin:

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-block-theme/

From that plugin's readme:

Author: @wordpressdotorg

Potential Solution

Could we consider accommodating the @username format for the plugin's authors / contributors, as it is probably a common oversight to include the @

Compare the previous list with the fuller list here, which does include Create Block Theme:

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/author/wordpressdotorg/

Hat tip to @ryelle / ryelle :) for spotting the issue and suggesting a tweak to account for this format.

[zoonini]

Sorry, the subject was meant to be Plugin Directory: Support @username format

[dd32]

In 12117:

Plugin Directory: Readme parsing: Support those who use the format of @joe-bloggs in the Contributors line.

Fixes #6539.

[dd32]

[12117] adds support for the @user format, however, doesn't cause this theme to be listed as the Plugin authors have not specified the WordPress.org user as a contributor.

The plugin authors have included an Author: @wordpressdotorg field in the readme, but that's not a valid readme field, so it's ignored. Only Contributors: affects anything.

​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/create-block-theme/trunk/readme.txt?marks=2-3

[netweb]

Replying to dd32:

The plugin authors have included an Author: @wordpressdotorg field in the readme, but that's not a valid readme field, so it's ignored. Only Contributors: affects anything.

That's interesting, as the wordpressdotorg user was originally displayed!

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And the README Validator also throws warnings when @ is included

"One or more contributors listed were ignored. The Contributors field should only contain WordPress.org usernames. Remember that usernames are case-sensitive."

• ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/readme-validator/
• ​https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/create-block-theme/trunk/readme.txt

Once you remove the @ symbol from the usernames the validator doesn't display any warnings

p.s The chaosexanima user doesn't exist, so this user needs to be removed from the list to pass validation

[dd32]

Replying to netweb:

Replying to dd32:

The plugin authors have included an Author: @wordpressdotorg field in the readme, but that's not a valid readme field, so it's ignored. Only Contributors: affects anything.

That's interesting, as the wordpressdotorg user was originally displayed!

When no Contributors can be found, it falls back to the "Owner" of the plugin - and in this case, the plugin post_author is the wordpressdotorg user.

BUT we don't use the post_author anywhere really in the UI, other than on that page as a fallback, everywhere else we only refer to either the Contributor list (including profiles) and we use the Plugins PHP headers for the Authorship line under the header.

And the README Validator also throws warnings when @ is included

"One or more contributors listed were ignored. The Contributors field should only contain WordPress.org usernames. Remember that usernames are case-sensitive."

Yup, Unfortunately it doesn't really get super detailed as to what the issue is, and no-one ever validates their readme's :)

p.s The chaosexanima user doesn't exist, so this user needs to be removed from the list to pass validation

The GitHub user is listed instead, I'm not going to add Github lookups here :) FYI @egregor.

[zoonini]

Thanks so much for the quick fix and explanations of the other issues, @dd32 & @netweb !

I put in a GH issue here for Create Block theme to fix all the readme issues. If you see something missing or incorrect, just let me know.

​https://github.com/WordPress/create-block-theme/issues/125

[mmaattiiaass]

Thanks for the detailed issue description. Here is a PR to fix this: ​https://github.com/WordPress/create-block-theme/pull/143