Jake Spurlock

Member Since: October 3rd, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: jakespurlock.com
GitHub: whyisjake
Job Title: Technical Account Engineer
Employer: Automattic / WordPress VIP
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Bio

Jake is a Technical Account Engineer at Automattic.

Interests

Photography, skiing, and WordPress…

Contributions Sponsored

Jake Spurlock contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Meta.

Contribution History

BuddyPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Security Team
Security Team
Theme Developer
Theme Developer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Wrote a comment on the post Call for volunteers: Release Model Working Group, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also interested, looking for ways to get security releases out a little faster...

1 week ago
Closed ticket #49048, in Core Trac:
Add unit tests for v5.3.1 block serialization functions

1 month ago
Committed [46997] to Core Trac:
Editor: Add unit tests for v5.3.1 block serialization functions ...

1 month ago
Committed [46915] to Core Trac:
Ensure that a user can publish_posts before making a post sticky. ...

1 month ago
Committed [46907] to Core Trac:
Ensure that a user can publish_posts before making a post sticky. ...

1 month ago
Committed [46901] to Core Trac:
Ensure that a user can publish_posts before making a post sticky. ...

1 month ago
Committed [46900] to Core Trac:
Prevent stored XSS in the block editor. Brings r46896 to the 5.3 ...

1 month ago
Committed [46899] to Core Trac:
Update `wp_kses_bad_protocol()` to recognize `colon` on uri ...

1 month ago
Committed [46898] to Core Trac:
Prevent stored XSS through wp_targeted_link_rel(). Brings r46894 to ...

1 month ago
Committed [46897] to Core Trac:
Ensure that a user can publish_posts before making a post sticky. ...

1 month ago
Committed [46896] to Core Trac:
Prevent stored XSS in the block editor. Prevent escaped unicode ...

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for December 4, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thursday + Thursday would be great.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for December 4, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m available for the proposed release, but unavailable for the chat today. Schedule is feeling…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: November 20, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
👆✖️💯

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.3 Retrospective – Call for feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think WordPress needs to move back to a scheduled, predictable release cycle. Totally agree,…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #4820, in Meta Trac:
`is_500` and `is_offline` missing from the VVV meta environment.

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4820, in Meta Trac:
`is_500` and `is_offline` missing from the VVV meta environment.

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to Image Processing in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Decisions, not Options

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Twenty Twenty, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Beautiful! 👏

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.2.3 RC 1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.2.3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available for testing! So please do – every…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Asia Logo: A Design Journey, on the site WordCamp Asia 2020:
Great work, beautiful logo!

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.2.3 Release Planning, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This timeline looks great, I think we have a great opportunity to fix some issues…

5 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4668, in Meta Trac:
Can I get my user name fixed on the trac committer list?

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The decision to upgrade should be in the hands of the owner of the web…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think there are questions around agency, consent, legalities, business impact for hosting providers, business…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's the cool thing about this then, you would be able to follow your current…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Examples of coordination here: https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That would def. be done, and many hosts have moved into the managed side of…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would think in this scenario then you might have a deploy process that is…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
From a hosting perspective, do you have any stats on percentages on older versions? I…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post plugins.svn is very slow, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
/me wonders what you did...

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There is an option to only allow minor updates while ignoring major. I would imagine…

6 months ago
Wrote a new post, Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Almost six years ago, WordPress 3.7 was released and one the of the major features…

6 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4614, in Meta Trac:
Can we get a security team badge?

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Seattle 2019 is looking for sponsors, on the site WordCamp Central:
GoodOne!!!!!!

6 months ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp for Publishers: Columbus 2019 coming up on August 7th

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Get Involved table at WCEU 2019, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+make.wordpress.org/security

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, Github: wordpress/wordpress-develop-security to track svn, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
n I would like to setup syncing here: /wordpress/wordpress-develop-security to track SVN with branches and…

11 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3984, in Meta Trac:
Plugin Repository URI

1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp US Contributor Day: What Should We Work On?, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This might be something to work on, it might be something that already kind of…

1 year ago
Committed [1932618] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.5.5

1 year ago
Committed [1932614] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.5

1 year ago
Committed [1931918] to Plugins Trac:
Adding the tagged version.

1 year ago
Committed [1931290] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.0

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Will this plugin still work?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, still works.

1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP-CLI v2.0.0 Release Notes, on the site WP-CLI:
Great looking release, congrats wp-cli team!

1 year ago
Committed [1692036] to Plugins Trac:
Add the settings pages.

3 years ago
Committed [1692035] to Plugins Trac:
Add a space.

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp for Publishers: Denver 2017 coming up on August 17th

3 years ago
Released a new plugin, New Tab Always

3 years ago