[wp-forums] Sending up the bat signal with needs-dev

[Mika A Epstein]

On 5 Jul 2011, at 8:05:37AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:

> on 05/07/2011 13:19 Andrew Nacin said the following:
> 
>> Please do one or both of two things
>> to get us there:
>>   1. Tag the thread with needs-dev. I have that set up to email me.
> 
> I'll keep that in mind. Not seen anything yet that hasn't already been covered by Ipstenu's excellent Master List - though I have added a couple of plugins in the past few hours.

Thanks to Dion for closing the post, though. As with last time, people try to use it for help, so ... yeah. I cleaned it out and added what plugins/info we didn't have into the individual posts. Please do update with anything you find!

The biggest three issues I've seen:
	Arras Theme needs to be fixed (dev has a patch, but has not pushed it)
	Tweet This and the jspn issue.
	WP Include which kills the Dashboard

>>   4. Anything else that triggers your spidey sense -- you know what to look
>> for -- please get us there to weigh in.
> 
> Biggest possible issue I've noticed so far - Yahoo Business are still running PHP 4! Some business hosts they are.

GoDaddy phone support displayed a level of moronitude by claiming that PHP 5.2.4 is a NEWER version than the 5.2.14 they actually have on their linux boxes.  I had to call them for my aunt (about the same time I saw the poster begging for help) and spent a bit of time asking the woman if she'd passed basic math.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32-i-cant-find-any-hosting-cos-that-support-php-524?replies=2

>> [0] My apologies for laughing at
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-to-v32-and-my-site-is-fucked?replies=39,
>> but it was hilarious.
> 
> I think some people are just born with an over-developed anger gene and a double-dose of the "Getting on my high horse" genes. I have to say that Ipstenu's display of patience under fire was exemplary. Not sure I could have remained as patient for that long.

Well there's a reason my answers got shorter and shorter and less 'helpful' and more 'Do this.'  I had a much longer reply to him about how he was an idiot, but that didn't look like it would help matters.

User rsgrone is probably pissed at me too, now that I think about it, for telling him that WPMU was NOT an official WP resource: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-problem-with-installation-of-wordpress-32?replies=20

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org