Jonathan Desrosiers 4:56 pm on March 19, 2020

Associating GitHub accounts with WordPress.org profiles

In an effort to make tracking all contributions to the WordPress project across multiple locations easier, a new option is available when editing your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile that allows you to connect your GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account.

In recent releases, the process of collecting props for non-WordPress.org contributions (namely GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) has been highly manual and error prone, occasionally resulting in contributors not receiving proper credit. Connecting your WordPress.org and GitHub accounts will allow automatic tooling to be built which reduces the burden on release teams to maintain a credit list.

How it works

The feature uses an oAuth flow to grant a WordPress GitHub application access to your GitHub account’s public information. This proves that you own both the GitHub account and the WordPress.org account and links the two accounts.

This has been available and tested for several months now, and many contributors have connected their accounts. But, because it was never officially announced, adoption has been low.

If you have not already, please take a moment to connect your GitHub account to your WordPress.org account by going to https://profiles.wordpress.org/me/profile/edit/.

Below are some screenshots of how the process works.

1. Edit WordPress.org profile

Navigate to the Account & Security tab and then click “link your GitHub account” to initiate the process.

2. Authorize WordPress.org Profiles application

The authorization screen on GitHub for the WordPress.org Profiles application. — Grant the WordPress Profiles GitHub application access to GitHub account.

3. Verify connection

Access can be revoked at any time by editing your profile and navigating to the Account and Security tab.

Huge props go out to @dd32 for implementing this feature. For more information on this feature and the ongoing effort to make collecting props easier, see Meta-#4447.

Mikel King 5:06 pm on March 19, 2020

Any chance we’ll see this bring GitLab into the fold as well?
- Jonathan Desrosiers 5:13 pm on March 19, 2020
  
  There are currently no official WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. related projects on GitLab. So there are no plans to bring GitLab into the fray (which is highly unlikely).
  
  The only purpose of this feature is to provide a way for contributors to link their GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account to their .org account so that their contributions can be tracked. It is not meant to be the same as the “Find me on:” section where you can link to various social networks.
David Baumwald 5:12 pm on March 19, 2020

Thank you for this! It’s been a challenge collecting the props for contributions to GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, and hopefully this will make is easier for them to get their due!
Andrew Duthie 5:12 pm on March 19, 2020

This is really great, and I’m glad there’s a more reliable way to be attributing credit to contributors to the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ project.

I’ve been thinking about a few additional “nice-to-have”s:

1. It would be nice if there was a single link we could provide to help direct people to link these accounts. From the original post:

If you have not already, please take a moment to connect your GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account to your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account by going to https://profiles.wordpress.org/YOUR-USERNAME/profile/edit.

The manual process of replacing “YOUR-USERNAME” is, in my mind, an unnecessary barrier (at least one that could technically be eliminated). Just like https://profiles.wordpress.org/ will redirect to one’s own profile if logged in, it would be great if there was a similar canonical link for directing to the exact page where this linking occurs.

2. Are there any public APIs for returning the WordPress.org account name associated with a GitHub account name? I assume something like this would at least need to exist internally to do the release credit attribution. Might there be any plans to open this up?

3. Both of the prior points would facilitate a third idea I’ve been thinking about on the Gutenberg side of things:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/24#card-34839803

Ideally we could automate the process of requesting this information of a contributor whose pull request has been merged, but who is not known to be associated with a WordPress.org account.
- Dominik Schilling 5:44 pm on March 19, 2020
  
  I already corrected the link in the post; the redirect to your profile happens with https://profiles.wordpress.org/profile/profile/edit.
  - Jonathan Desrosiers 5:44 pm on March 19, 2020
    
    Thanks, @ocean90! I couldn’t figure out the appropriate link.
  - Andrew Duthie 6:29 pm on March 19, 2020
    
    When I click on this link, it does take me to my profile, but it’s the profile “Home” page, not the “Edit Profile” page where the account linking happens.
    
    In other words, it takes me here:
    
    https://profiles.wordpress.org/aduth/profile/
    
    I am also seeing two error notices, each with the text:
    
    You do not have access to that page.
    
    Edit: Maybe this is related to what @tjnowell was experiencing based on his comment below.
  - Sergey Biryukov 6:33 pm on March 19, 2020
    
    That link doesn’t seem to work for me, it just opens my profile with a couple of “You do not have access to that page” errors.
  - Kelly Dwan 6:50 pm on March 19, 2020
    
    Getting the same issues mentioned above, but https://profiles.wordpress.org/me/profile/edit/ seems to work just fine.
  - Scott Reilly 7:27 pm on March 19, 2020
    
    https://profiles.wordpress.org/profile/edit/ should work as well.
    - Jonathan Desrosiers 8:20 pm on March 19, 2020
      
      I see this for https://profiles.wordpress.org/profile/edit/: https://cloudup.com/cqnPjcMpoPH
      
      But https://profiles.wordpress.org/me/profile/edit/ redirects me to the correct screen. For now, I’ll update the post to link to @ryelle‘s suggestion.
- Andrew Duthie 1:34 pm on April 3, 2020
  3. Both of the prior points would facilitate a third idea I’ve been thinking about on the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ side of things:
  
  https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/24#card-34839803
  
  Ideally we could automate the process of requesting this information of a contributor whose pull request has been merged, but who is not known to be associated with a WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account.
  
  An update to this: This is now active in the Gutenberg repository.
  
  https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21221
  
  A few examples of how it looks:
  - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21240#issuecomment-607504789
  - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21364#issuecomment-608168765
Jonathan Desrosiers 5:51 pm on March 19, 2020

+make.wordpress.org/meta/
Tom J Nowell 6:03 pm on March 19, 2020

This is broken if you’ve already entered your githubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ username in before the feature was added. It shows red banners on your profile saying that you don’t have access to view that page, just below the badges.

I had to edit my profile to remove the github username, then authenticate with GH to get it working again
- @dd32 11:22 pm on March 19, 2020
  
  What field had you used for the username? This doesn’t actually utilise a profile field at all, and AFAIK there wasn’t a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ field at all prior to launching it.
Ronald Huereca 7:13 pm on March 19, 2020

Is there a possibility of linking to a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ organization?
- Jonathan Desrosiers 8:13 pm on March 19, 2020
  
  When props are given for WordPress contributions, they are generally given to the individuals making the contributions and not companies. I don’t believe that organizations on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ can make commits (I could be wrong). I don’t know that I see the benefit to adding support for this as it doesn’t contribute to the goal of helping to better track contributions.
  
  Also worth mentioning that WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ does not currently make a distinction between organizations and individuals. It would be a bit weird to connect an organization to an individual profile.
tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 7:41 pm on March 19, 2020

It would be good to link to this information from https://make.wordpress.org/meta/handbook/documentation/profile-badges/
- Jonathan Desrosiers 8:18 pm on March 19, 2020
  
  Can you elaborate a bit? Do you mean that the criteria for the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team should be expanded to reflect contributions to GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ are counted if their .org account is linked to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/?
Gabriel Mays 3:33 am on March 20, 2020

Great work @desrosj, love this!
Milana Cap 9:05 am on March 20, 2020

All contributors and team members, please update your profiles. Thank you.

+make.wordpress.org/docs
- Milana Cap 9:06 am on March 20, 2020
  
  Also, thanks to everyone working on this. Trying to find every contributor was a bit of a nightmare. You rock!
Daniele Scasciafratte 1:44 pm on March 21, 2020

I tested yesterday (also to see if we need to some changes to VVV).
Pull request https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/195 but there are some problems with travis and docker looking at the log
Also the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47733 is mentioned but doesn’t results at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/my-patches so is difficult to track on what I am working on.
- Daniele Scasciafratte 1:48 pm on March 21, 2020
  
  Also the codestyle https://travis-ci.com/github/WordPress/wordpress-develop/jobs/300481374 report errors of other files. I think that should act only on the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. involved and not all the wordpress files.
  - Jonathan Desrosiers 1:56 pm on March 23, 2020
    
    I don’t know that this is the correct post for this comment. This seems to relate more to Working on Trac Tickets Using GitHub Pull Requests. This post is only about linking your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account to your GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account.
    
    That said, it looks like (according to Travis) there is a syntax error in the PR linked above. PHPUnit is run against the `build` directory on Travis for performance reasons.
    
    As for the PR not showing in My Patches, that is out of scope for the initial iteration of that feature. In the future, maybe there could be a section with “My PRs”. But for now, this link will show you all of your PRs against the `wordpress-develop` repository.
    - Daniele Scasciafratte 2:49 pm on March 26, 2020
      
      Yeah I saw later that I wrote in the wrong blogpost -.-‘
      
      Also for the PR i saw later the error, working on the laptop in this days of quarantine instead of my workstation is showing the lack of environment settings for my job XD
      
      Anyway I saw that the cs is happening to all the files, is not better to do it just on the ones involved from the pr? Anyway this is not the right place for discussing that.
      
      Thanks for the other anwers.