Ian Dunn 4:39 pm on September 20, 2023
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Help Scout DKIM update

Hi, we got the following email from Help Scout. I’m not sure if it applies to both of our instances, or only one of them. The records need to be updated by October 16th.

As of October 16th, 2023 we will no longer be relying on SPF authentication tied to your domain when using Help Scout servers to send email as your custom email address. We are moving to a method with a focus on DKIM instead, to both modernize our infrastructure and align with industry best practices.

You’re receiving this message because your domain(s) currently has a DMARC record set to p=reject, but does not have the CNAME records to allow DKIM authentication for emails sent from Help Scout. If you do not take action before we make these changes, emails you send from Help Scout will be rejected by many email servers as they will no longer be DMARC aligned.

To continue using Help Scout servers to send emails as your domain, you’ll need to create a couple of CNAME records at the DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). provider for your domain so that recipient servers can authenticate the DKIM signature on emails you send from Help Scout.

You’ll need two CNAME records:

strong1._domainkey.[yourdomain] should point to strong1._domainkey.helpscout.net
strong2._domainkey.[yourdomain] should point to strong2._domainkey.helpscout.net

Our article Use DKIM to Help With Email Deliverability has a bit more information if you need it.

Alternatively, you may choose to set up your Help Scout mailbox to connect to your email provider to send email, instead of sending from our servers. You do not need to make changes to your DNS records if you choose to change the sending method.

Our article Outgoing Email Settings explains a bit more about the different options and has links to help with setting up the connection to your provider.

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Ian Dunn 2:57 pm on August 16, 2023
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Email for events.wordpress.org

Hi, the Community Team would like to start creating events.wordpress.org email addresses, to correspond with the sites we recently setup. Similar to WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. addresses, they would be hosted in the WordPress Foundation GSuite, and would take the format of japan@events.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/, etc.

Are there any complications around that? If not, can you please set it up? I’ve added the domain to the info@wordpressfoundation.org account, but it needs to be verified with a TXT record. You can get the value from https://admin.google.com/ > Account > Domains > Manage Domains. I’m assuming they’ll provide the MX values etc after that process is complete.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or if there’s anything else you need.

Thanks!

#prio2

Dion Hulse 2:21 am on August 3, 2023
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Email Forward for forum-moderation

Can we please setup an email redirect for forum-moderation@wordpress.org to support.83653.37ec7bb06f4500a7@helpscout.net?

This is the same destination as the forum-password-resets@ email address.

Thank you in advance.

cc @clorith

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Dion Hulse 1:25 am on July 27, 2023
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Email forward for Memorials.

Can we please setup an email redirect for memorials@wordpress.org to memorials@mu.helpscoutapp.com?

Thank you!

cc @poliuk

#email #prio2 #helpscout

Dion Hulse 5:14 am on July 3, 2023
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MC Access for Naoko Takano

Can Nao please be granted access to 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/ MC as part of her 5ftf work?

release access not required.

#prio2 #mc

Ian Dunn 4:06 pm on June 15, 2023
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events.wordpress.org served by wordcamp.org

Hi, the Community team would like to start using the events.wordpress.org domain for a new series of events. They’ll need many of the same tools as WordCamps, so the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team would like to use the wordcamp.org server to host the domain.

Can you please setup DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252)., nginxNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. https://www.nginx.com/., SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server., etc to support that? I assume it’d be similar to what was needed to add buddycamp.org.

For SSL, we’re not planning to use any 4th-level domains, only events.wordpress.org/.... So I assume the 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/ wildcard is all that’s needed?

They’d like to launch the first one around the end of the month. @vnsavage, if you have time to do this in the next ~4 business days that would help us make that deadline, but I understand if not.

Thanks!

cc @dd32

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Dion Hulse 5:49 am on June 8, 2023
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Redirect *.forums.wordpress.org

It’s time for forums.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/ to cease executing bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org.. This is the final component on WordPress.org running bbPress 1.x that I’m aware of. It’s not PHP8 compatible.

The mobile forums were deactivated a year ago, and the locale forums 7 years ago.

I’d personally like to simply remove the forums role and the subdomain entirely, but that’ll break any old links that still remain. For now, can we just cease loading bbPress and instead…

In r20481-dotorg I’ve added a new file, index.php to the forums public_html.

Can we please:
1. Change the root to be ..../public_html/ instead of referencing ..../public_html/bbpress/
2. Remove all bbPress rewrite rules from wporg-forums.wordpress.org, replacing it with a singular rule that directs all traffic to public_html/index.php
3. Add a DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). A/CNAME entry for forums.wordpress.org (Apparently this doesn’t have a DNS entry)

#bbpress #nginx #prio2

Steve Dufresne 4:53 am on June 7, 2023
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I currently have a wp.org…

I currently have a wp.org sandbox but it doesn’t have access to wordcamp.org. Can I get access to help upcoming feature development?

Many thanks.

#sandbox #prio2 #wordcamp

Ian Dunn 11:43 pm on June 1, 2023  

MC access for ryelle

Hi, can you please grant @ryelle access to 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/ MC, including PHPMyAdmin? Release access isn’t required, though.

Thanks!

Dion Hulse 12:57 am on March 28, 2023
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GitHub SSH host key update – SVN-Git sync

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and the Security mirror aren’t being pushed when a SVN commit is made – this started happening when GitHub rotated it’s host key.

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop is still receiving commits, as GitHub is pulling them from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/ every 15-20 minutes, but we need to push them in order for GitHub actions to work.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress has also ceased syncing, and it appears not to be managed by Systems, and likely to be managed by @markjaquith who has the same 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/ host key issue. We should migrate this from Mark account to something Systems managed. I’m not sure how best to do that however, as the GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. commit hashes do not match git://core.git.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//, it uses a different branch naming (master, and branch-X.Y)

cc @sergeybiryukov

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