Why WordPress doesnt have SVN mirror on GitHub

tazotodua
(@tazotodua)

7 years, 4 months ago
Years are gone and I am surprised still, why WordPress plugins & themes are not mirrored on GitHub, where people can easier contribute to plugins and themes and their maintenance/updates will be easier, so wp would have developed much rapidly… I can’t understand why. Is it ever planned to mirror on GitHub?

(i dont mean the case, when someone 3rd party person mirrored on github).

Or at least, to REQUIRE from all theme/plugin developers, to have a mirror of all their submited plugins on GitHub.
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Joy
(@joyously)

7 years, 4 months ago

Seems like a waste of space. The WP plugin and theme repository is already a curated collection. Why duplicate it?

Thread Starter tazotodua
(@tazotodua)

7 years, 4 months ago

and how we can submit PULL requests to plugins or themes, like we do on github? (yes, some individuals have github, but with their own intention).

Joy
(@joyously)

7 years, 4 months ago

That is out of scope of what the repository is for. WordPress provides a place for their users to be able to search and install code from authors whose code has been reviewed. It also provides support forums for that code. It is not intended to be a development platform. It is for production ready code.

Thread Starter tazotodua
(@tazotodua)

7 years, 4 months ago

No, I just wanted to say that if there was GitHub mirror NOT FOR production, but for development, so, then the plugin authors should manually copy those files onto SVN, but the main advantage is that the development will happen on github, thus, bumping WP development on a higher scale.

Joy
(@joyously)

7 years, 4 months ago

Still out of scope of what WordPress is doing. All those thousands of authors can put their code anywhere they want. Why would WordPress want to mirror it on some other site? Pointless.

Dion
(@diondesigns)

7 years, 4 months ago

Plugins have been mirrored on Github for quite some time.

https://github.com/wp-plugins

I believe it was part of the deal when EIG became an investor in Automattic. (I suspect Bluehost being on the recommended hosts list was part of that deal as well.)

Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

7 years, 3 months ago

FYI, that is not an official WordPress account or property. We take no responsibility for the contents there. Others may have set up mirrors, but we do not have such things officially supported.

umchal
(@umchal)

7 years, 3 months ago

There is another mirror.

Recently, I wanted to find plugins that use a particular library. And there seems to be no reliable means to search code among hosted plugins (and themes) at the moment. I thought this track search would give some results by using some partial code as a key phrase but it does not work well.

For example, say, you want to find plugins using a particular jQuery library which has a string jquery-custom-content-scroller in its code. Even if you type that, it doesn’t find anything. On the other hand, see this GitHub search results and this way, you can find some plugins.

But the both GitHub mirrors are not picking up all of the new plugins. Some plugins are not indexed. So it’s not pointless to have a mirror on GitHub for the ability to search code.