πŸŽ‰ One more committer for 4.4!

Please join me in welcoming a new guest committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. for WordPress 4.4 β€”Β Ryan McCue (@rmccue)!

Ryan has been contributing to the WordPress world for many years, through various patches, as well as being one of the maintainers of the SimplePie RSS library that WordPress uses.

More recently, he started the WordPress REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think β€œphone app” or β€œwebsite”) can communicate with the data store (think β€œdatabase” or β€œfile system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins., and has been leading the development of it for the past two years, nine months and five days (not that anyone is counting!). As the REST API comes closer to being ready for merge, Ryan having commit access is a natural progression: he can bring his expertise in the REST API directly across to WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..

Congratulations, Ryan! πŸŽ†πŸ’―β­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈ

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