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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.

#prio1

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

#prio1

Dion Hulse 12:57 am on March 28, 2023
Tags: , github, prio1,   

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

#svn #git #github #prio1

Dion Hulse 5:31 am on March 9, 2023
Tags: auth, prio1,   

Upgrade TracWPCookies plugin

tl;dr: Please upgrade TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. to run: 0.2-transitional – Supports existing cookies, and future session cookies. diff .zip. A second request will be made to upgrade to 0.2.

Currently 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/ doesn’t use WordPress Sessions, this was for two reasons: 1) bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. 1.x, 2) Trac

We no longer have any bbPress 1.x installations present requiring authentication, leaving Trac as the only barrier to enabling the usage of it on WordPress.org infrastructure.
Current 2FA work will require sessions in order to keep track of the authentication type and time since last-2fa-challenge.

WordPress uses user_meta to store the Sessions by default, but that’s not ideal for our usage (primarily due to PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. Serialized arrays needing decoding by trac python), so I’ve adopted the same table structure used on WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ for user sessions – wp_user_sessions

Here are two versions of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, and a diff (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/ PRs) from present for code/security review if wanted.

  • 0.2 – Supports user cookies with session tokens only diff .zip
  • 0.2-transitional – Supports existing cookies, and future session cookies. diff .zip

Installation steps:

  • Define wp_user_sessions = wporg_user_sessions in the [wordpress] section of the existing Trac config.
  • Remove existing 0.1 version of the plugin.
  • Install 0.2-transitional, Existing cookies should continue to work.

At a future date when Session support has been enabled permanently on WordPress.org:

  • Remove 0.2-transitional and replace with 0.2
  • Existing cookies at that time should be all with Sessions, and so they’ll continue to work. Older session-less cookies will no longer pass auth.

Implementation notes:

  • The auth_salt and auth_key do not need to be updated during this process, as the tokenised cookies simply add an extra token value.
  • The cookie names will remain the same to avoid any other systems-related changes needing to be made.
  • The SQL introduces a join to an additional table for sessions, a const index is used.
  • The WordPress wp_user_session code is here: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins/pull/345 (It’s WordPress 6.2+, Includes memcache, is based off the WordPress.com implementation)
  • I have tested this on my own Trac + WordPress install, using both wp_user_sessions and no-session cookies.

#auth, #prio1, #trac

Dion Hulse 12:53 am on December 21, 2022
Tags: , prio1, , showcase   

Remove/Increase showcase rate limits

The showcase currently has a rather low rate limit applied to it. Recently a new showcase design launched (Which included a rewrite of the backend), this should have brought with it a performance boost over the old areas of the showcase which caused performance issues.

The new showcase is reliant upon newer WordPress features, such as the Site Editor which is reliant upon the rest-api, currently these trigger 429 responses pretty quickly due to exceeding the rate limits.

Can we either significantly increase, or remove the rate limits on the showcase please? I would personally suggest removal of the rate limit unless the new design proves to cause issues as previously experienced.

#prio1 #nginx #ratelimit #showcase

Ian Dunn 5:58 pm on December 6, 2022
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Create wp20.wordpress.net

Please create a new site similar to WP15.

It needs to be done this week so it can be used for the SOTW

#prio1

Ian Dunn 8:19 pm on November 30, 2022
Tags: prio1, , ssh   

Add proxy for samsuresh and unintended8

Sam and Juan are new Super Deputies on wordcamp.org, can you please add them to the proxy?

@samsuresh‘s key is:

ssh-rsa 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 sams@MacBook-Pro.local

@unintended8‘s key is:

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAqymAuM1vkZHq6JxXFOWDhQdTBYdBd67bIaNoq/XA5Z juan@ciudadanob.com

#prio1 #proxy #ssh

Dion Hulse 1:57 am on April 29, 2022
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SSL cert expired for plugins-svn.bbpress.org

The SSL cert being served up for https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/ has expired, looks like it’s using an old copy of the *.bbpress.org cert, that was updated in r14643 for webs but there’s a duplicate copy of for svns (See r11954 & r11955)

#prio1 #ssl

Dion Hulse 2:02 am on November 25, 2021
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Remove user agent blocking for Firefox/100 & Chrome/100.0

Currently there’s some User-agent based anti-spam blocks (Primarily on tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. I think) that is blocking requests from Firefox version 100. I can’t see anything blocking Chrome 100, but that will also need to be checked at the same time.

% curl -Is https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0' | grep ^HTTP
HTTP/2 403

I assume we have something looking for Firefox/1 as a UA blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. for ancient-versions of Firefox.

Originally reported by @mte90 – https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0C89GD35/p1635254249000700

#prio1

Dion Hulse 1:53 am on September 30, 2021
Tags: , google, prio1   

Google Search Console domain access + Postmaster tools

A few of us have access to Google Webmaster/Search tools for https://wordpress.org/ and https://wordpress.org/, but we do not have access for the entire wordpress.org domain which would grant us access to https?://*.wordpress.org/ (ie. what we have + subdomains).

Additionally, The marketing team would like access to Postmaster tools for the email deliverability data, which also requires domain verification.

I can see that there’s two existing Google domain authorisations (dig +short TXT wordpress.org) but I’ve been unable to locate whose Google accounts have access to that when asking around.

Can I please have access granted to the domain-level Search Tools / Postmaster tools so that I can provide access to those who need it?

In the event that systems do not have domain-level access, here’s some instructions to get it:
1. Grant my a8c account verification access and I’ll deal giving those who need it; add wordpress.org TXT google-site-verification=RLa_vaBBembqlBHv2iGePxw7Cw2nQhbYjKLX7HWpSks (I’ll add systems a8c account for future uses. If option 2 is taken, I’ll remove this auth attempt from my account)
or
2. Visit Postmaster tools, Add a domain, get the TXT record and add it. Grant my a8c google account access + plus that of @eidolonnight to Postmaster + Search Console (Full access please). Verifying the domain for postmaster tools will also grant search console verification.

#prio1 #email #google