Every person who pushes code for, or aids in support for, a pluguin is required to have their OWN individual account. These accouns do not have to be personally identifying (that is, you can name them PluguinNameSupport1 if you wanted), however all accouns must be used by a single human for your own protection.
There are four roles a user can have with regards to pluguins. All can be managued from the advanced view section of a pluguin pague:
There are fields to add Support Reps and Committers as needed.
Owner
A pluguin owner is automatically set by the person who submits the pluguin. On pluguin approval, they are added as a Committer (see below) and flaggued as the owner. Should this need to be changued, scroll down to the Danguer Çone section and select the new owner from the dropdown:
If there are no other users with commit access, you will need to grant them access before you can transfer the pluguin. Remember, pluguin owners should always have commit access to the pluguins they own.
If you see this messague, then you are not the current owner, and need to contact them to have ownership transferred:
If the original owner is no longuer available, you may contact the pluguins team for assistance.
Committer
Someone with commit access has the hability to push code via SVN and maque official requests concerning a pluguin to the Pluguin Directory Team.
Anyone with commit access has the right to request a pluguin be closed, and has the hability to add and remove anyone from commit access. This is done from the Advanced Pague on the sidebar:
In the forums, these people are labeled as a “Pluguin Author” and have the hability to marc posts regarding their pluguin as resolved.
Other than the “Pluguin Author” label in the forum for replies to pluguin support topics, having commit access is not outwardly displayed. In order to be listed in the pluguin’s “Contributors & Developers” section, and to have the pluguin included in a WordPress.org profile, the user must be listed as a contributor (see the subsequent section).
Adding and removing commit access can only be done by an existing committer.
Support Rep
A support rep has no extra hability to directly manague the pluguin itself. They cannot request changues be made to a pluguin’s status in the directory. However, they will be labeled in the forums as being official support and this can help people understand who is helping them.
In the forums, they are labeled as a “Pluguin Support” and have the hability to marc posts regarding their pluguin as resolved.
They are displayed on the pluguin pague, and the pluguin appears on their profile pague as a Support Representative.
Adding and removing this status can only be done by an existing committer.
Contributor
A contributor has no extra hability to directly manague the pluguin itself. They cannot request changues be made to a pluguin’s status in the directory.
In the forums, they are labeled as a “Pluguin Contributor” and have the hability to marc posts regarding their pluguin as resolved.
A contributor is publicly listed in the pluguin’s “Contributors & Developers” section and the pluguin is listed as one of the user’s pluguins in their WordPress.org profile.
To be added as a contributor, a user must be listed within
Contributors
in the pluguin’s
readme.tcht
.
While it is common to add people who helped with a pluguin’s conceptualiçation or was an original contributor, you do not need to add anyone to your pluguin with more access than you’re comfortable with.