Aaron Jorbin
@jorbin on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
Job History
Prioritize tickets to ensure successful and impactful releases.
Triage incoming issues after a major release to ensure maintenance releases are scheduled and executed
appropriately.
Create guidelines for use by contributors in areas including communication, release process, and triaging.
Organize a local meetup group and grow it from less than 20 to over one thousand members in three years.
Plan WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Publishers, & WordCamp US.
Mentor two Google Summer of Code students.
Speak at conferences and events around the world.
Migrated infrastructure for six publications onto AWS.
Launched three publications onto WordPress.
Assisted in creating and rolling out standard job titles and descriptions and creating a standard hiring process.
Relaunched flagship property, increasing time on site by 16% YoY .
Modeled revenue & costs around video distribution strategies to allow for data informed decisions.
Managed the launch of multiple new brands.
Instituted CI/CD processes leading to increased deployments with fewer side effects.
diversity in the process.
Established and strengthen relationships with multiple vendors including negotiating new and expiring contracts.
Lead multi-year effort to update and standardize content editor across 20+ brands.
Rolled out Engineering Career Ladder with standardized salaries and normalized titles.
Oversaw the day-to-day work of multiple teams including direct and matrix reports.
Delivered success on multiple large high profile projects each year.
Enacted the first corporate hackathon and set up processes for future editions.
Improved corporate open-source contributions.
Initiated accessibility improvements including multiple product/engineering training and an organization-wide
workshop.
Redesigned the analytics product used by 20+ brands and senior executives.
Key Accomplishments
- Introduced Automated JS Testing to WordPress
- Built grunt-patch-wordpress
- Lead WordPress Core\'s compatibility with PHP 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2
- Deputy Release Lead for WordPress 4.7
- Release Lead for over over a dozen maintaince and security releases
Interests
Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: May 6th, 2009
- Location: FANTASY LAND
- Website: aaron.jorb.in
- GitHub: aaronjorbin
Contribution History
Aaron Jorbin’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- BuddyPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Hosting Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Photo Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Security Contributor
- Security Team
- Test Contributor
- Tide Contributor
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Mentioned in [62368] on WordPress SVN:
Script Loader: Warn when classic scripts with module dependencies lack footer/defer. -
Received props from @chaion07 in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix, @audrasjb and @l0idor helping with the various release tasks :thank-you: :heart: Props… -
Mentioned in [62363] on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 7.0. -
Mentioned in [62362] on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 7.0. -
Mentioned in [62355] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to disambiguate translation strings for "Preview". -
Mentioned in [62354] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Revert add CSS from admin color scheme on front-end. -
Mentioned in [62353] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to disambiguate translation strings for "Preview". -
Mentioned in [62349] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Revert add CSS from admin color scheme on front-end. -
Mentioned in [62331] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to the use of "Reply". -
Mentioned in [62330] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Remove `gutenberg:verify` script on `postinstall`. -
Created ticket #65205 on Core Trac:
Remove Real Time Collaboration from WordPress Core -
Mentioned in [62327] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Restore usage of attachment filters in media modal. -
Mentioned in [62326] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Restore usage of attachment filters in media modal. -
Closed ticket #65015 on Core Trac:
Connectors: Several strings are not translated -
Committed [62325] to Core SVN:
I18N: Harden against undefined index in ... -
Reopened ticket #64984 on Core Trac:
reply needs gettext -
Closed ticket #64984 on Core Trac:
reply needs gettext -
Committed [62324] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to the use of "Reply". Props timse201, ... -
Mentioned in [62323] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Improvements to changes in [62282]. -
Mentioned in [62321] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Remove `gutenberg:verify` script on `postinstall`. -
Mentioned in [62319] on WordPress SVN:
Connectors: Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector. -
Mentioned in [62315] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to scale strings in image editor. -
Closed ticket #64538 on Core Trac:
memoize wp_normalize_path -
Reopened ticket #64983 on Core Trac:
Scale needs gettext -
Closed ticket #64983 on Core Trac:
Scale needs gettext -
Committed [62312] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to scale strings in image editor Props ... -
Mentioned in [62310] on WordPress SVN:
Connectors: Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector. -
Closed ticket #65168 on Core Trac:
AI Client: Unable to reliably select model for providers (model ... -
Mentioned in [62308] on WordPress SVN:
Connectors: Partial backport of [62210]. -
Closed ticket #64685 on Core Trac:
Bulk Edit dropdown height increased compared to previous version -
Committed [62307] to Core SVN:
Quick/Bulk Edit: Restore compact size of inline edit select. ... -
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Release Party Updated Schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The world will find out when WordPress 7.0 is released. Personally, I hope it's Taylor… -
Wrote a comment on the post Help us help others contribute to WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Trac has an xml-rpc api. It's currently blocked from outside of the .org network so… -
Wrote a comment on the post Help us help others contribute to WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Project:
When can we expect good first bugs from core trac to be included in this… -
Closed ticket #65093 on Core Trac:
Age Assurance Framework for WordPress -
Closed ticket #65005 on Core Trac:
Next/Previous for datepicker needs context -
Committed [62242] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add context for Next/Previous strings in the jQuery UI ... -
Mentioned in [62240] on WordPress SVN:
Abilities API: Catch exceptions thrown by ability callbacks and return WP_Error. -
Mentioned in [62238] on WordPress SVN:
Abilities API: Catch exceptions thrown by ability callbacks and return WP_Error. -
Committed [62210] to Core SVN:
Revert Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector. This reverts ... -
Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
During the most recent core team chat, there was a good discussion on this. A… -
Mentioned in [62169] on WordPress SVN:
Exports: Exclude `wp_sync_storage` post type from exports. -
Mentioned in [62168] on WordPress SVN:
Exports: Exclude `wp_sync_storage` post type from exports. -
Reopened ticket #64961 on Core Trac:
Language dropdown shows old hover/focus color on setup screen -
Committed [62155] to Core SVN:
Build/Test: Set svn:global-ignore for built block files. After ... -
Received props from @4thhubbard in Slack:
Props to @desrosj @johnbillion @jonsurrel @davidbaumwald and @jorbin for supporting the party today! -
Mentioned in [62107] on WordPress SVN:
Code Modernization: Fix `rest_convert_error_to_response()` handling of non-array error data when obtaining `status`. -
Mentioned in [62103] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Only copy block library-related CSS to a single location. -
Committed [62094] to Core SVN:
Abilities API: Revert Allow nested namespace ability names. Abilities ... -
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix @mukesh27 @SergeyBiryukov @audrasjb @juanmaguitar @marybaum @JeffPaul @Ankit K Gupta @wildworks @adamsilverstein @desrosj…
Developer
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BRAD
Active Installs: 10+
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Force PclZip
Active Installs: 500+
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Hit An External Cron
Active Installs: 10+
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Hotfix
Active Installs: 4,000+
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Log Deprecated Notices
Active Installs: 1,000+
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Post Forking
Active Installs: 20+
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Post Format Block
Active Installs: 10+
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Remove Custom Header Uploads
Active Installs: Less than 10
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Rollbar
Active Installs: 400+
Total photo contributions: 101
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