Opened 4 weeks ago
Closed 4 weeks ago
#8263 closed enhancement (duplicate)
New Profile feature: show which WordPress releases a contributor has contributed to
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Description
### Description
The new Profile design does a great job surfacing a contributor's areas of activity (code, design, support, etc.) via the contributor summary line. However, there is currently no way to see *which specific WordPress releases* a contributor has been part of.
For contributors who have shipped code, docs, design, or other work across multiple releases, this history is a meaningful part of their story — and currently invisible on the profile.
Feature request:
Add a "Releases" section (or extend the existing contributor stats area) on profiles to display the WordPress release versions a contributor has contributed to — for example:
Contributed to releases: 6.0 · 6.1 · 6.2 · 6.5 · 6.6
Each release badge/tag could optionally link to the corresponding credits page (e.g. https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/wordpress-6-0-arturo/) so visitors can see the full contributor list for that release.
Expected behavior:
- Profile pages show a list or set of badges for the major WordPress releases the person contributed to.
- Data could be sourced from the existing release credits system (props in SVN/Git commits, release credits pages, etc.).
This data already exists in the Credits API, so we should be able to pull and display release-wise contributor information directly instead of introducing a separate data source.
For example, the Core Credits API already exposes contributor data per release:
https://api.wordpress.org/core/credits/1.1/?version=7.0That could make it possible to generate a contributor’s release history dynamically by aggregating the releases where their username appears in the credits data.
Related discussion for reference:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0ATCQF2PMM/p1778721460711999?thread_ts=1778522833.499199&cid=C0ATCQF2PMM
There’s also an existing proof-of-concept/history view here:
https://peterwilson.cc/wordpress-contribution-history/?wp-credit-history-username=matt