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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
    104contributions
    high13
    medium91
    score130
    Last 90 days
    162contributions
    high14
    medium148
    score190
    Last 12 months
    290contributions
    high17
    medium273
    score324

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 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
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 19:16
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #809 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: Pin release resolution on legacy data shapes.
    Aug 14 Fri · 19:06
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #807 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: Resolve release holds from the stable tag
    Aug 14 Fri · 02:27
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Requesting a .org sandbox, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hi! Your sandbox has been provisioned: Hostname: mcliwanow.dev.dca.wordpress.org You can SSH with the username wporgdev…
    Aug 14 Fri · 02:27
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Hi! Our team is working…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hi! Your sandbox has been provisioned: Hostname: kokkieh.dev.dca.wordpress.org You can SSH with the username wporgdev…
    Aug 14 Fri · 01:26
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post MC Access, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Aug 13 Thu · 20:12
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #806 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: Baseline security scans on the served release
    Aug 13 Thu · 18:44
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #805 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: Consume security scan callbacks exactly once
    Aug 12 Wed · 22:18
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #796 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Escape output across several wporg components
    Aug 12 Wed · 19:39
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #793 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Honor registered post statuses across the plugin/theme REST route and support forums
    Aug 12 Wed · 19:08
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #790 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Global Header & Footer: Remove unused wporg_get_global_footer() and feature flag

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin