[wp-forums] Something useful for plugin authors

[Rich Pedley]

On 10/03/2011 20:04, Otto wrote:
> Oddly enough, this code has been in there a while. mdawaffe added it
> 15 months ago, but seemingly never put a link to it from anywhere.
> I'll see about making it more visible.
>
> There is also a plugin-contributor link, like this:
>
> http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-contributor/Otto42
>
> This does the same thing, but uses the plugin contributor information
> instead. The contributor information is what comes from the plugin's
> readme.txt files, and it is also why your plugin readme.txt files
> should have your wporg usernames in the contributor field.
>
> In other words:
> -Committers can commit changes to the plugin via SVN.
> -Contributors are listed in readme.txt files.
>

both excellent, so so useful.

many thanks for refinding it ;)

Rich