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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
    94contributions
    high2
    medium92
    score98
    Last 90 days
    182contributions
    high15
    medium167
    score212
    Last 12 months
    343contributions
    high18
    medium325
    score379

    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
    September 2026
    Sep 03 Thu · 15:10
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post .org Security Release Access Howdy,…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hi! Your sandbox and access has been provisioned: Hostname: rfaile313.dev.dca.wordpress.org You can SSH with the…
    Sep 03 Thu · 14:06
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #867 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Trac: Declare footer globals unconditionally and simplify the preferences link
    Sep 03 Thu · 13:02
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #570 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: New endpoints to integrate reviewers tools.
    Sep 03 Thu · 13:00
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #866 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Theme Previews: only persist registered style variations in links
    Sep 03 Thu · 11:59
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #861 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Badge Management: map the badge manager capability against the site
    Sep 03 Thu · 09:30
    GitHub high
    Pull request #6401 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli:
    Fix wp --info / wp --version being dropped under WP_CLI_STRICT_ARGS_MODE
    Sep 03 Thu · 09:11
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #852 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Openverse: Strip only the leading subpath when building the redirect target.
    Sep 03 Thu · 01:56
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #6401 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
    Fix wp --info / wp --version being dropped under WP_CLI_STRICT_ARGS_MODE
    Sep 02 Wed · 21:37
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #865 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Theme Directory: validate package file names and contents on import
    Sep 02 Wed · 20:41
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #864 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    o2: Align post visibility handling across the o2 plugins

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin