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Barry

Systems Wrangler at Automattic

@barry Houston, TX joined Oct 2005

barry.wordpress.com github.com/bazza Slack: @barry

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    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Systems Wrangler
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    19contributions
    high2
    medium17
    score23
    Last 90 days
    186contributions
    high17
    medium169
    score220
    Last 12 months
    352contributions
    high19
    medium333
    score390

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 14 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 4.6
    • 3.9
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 03 Sat · 04:10
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Read-only access to package release codebase, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    This lives in the WP.org MC code repo and I'm not really sure it makes…
    Oct 03 Sat · 03:03
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post We would need access to…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Sorry for the delay. Added. @otto42 - this is the one I pinged you about.…
    Oct 03 Sat · 02:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Installing npm v12 on the build server, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Oct 03 Sat · 02:46
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Hi there, I require super…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    @obenland - do you handle these?
    Oct 03 Sat · 02:46
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Write access to dotorg.svn, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hi @johnjamesjacoby! It looks like you have commit access already. What are you trying to…
    September 2026
    Sep 28 Mon · 23:05
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Using headless browsers to access WordPress Core Trac, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    I don't think there is any reason to do that. grunt patch wordpress should work…
    Sep 25 Fri · 16:28
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1 into WordPress/piplets:
    Add a "Linked from" backlinks row to open notes
    Sep 18 Fri · 03:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post dotorg.svn write access, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Sep 18 Fri · 03:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Hey team, I’m requesting MC…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Sep 12 Sat · 02:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proxy Access: Francisco Torres, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Added. Please let us know when we can remove the previous key.

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin