Question 1: Should I switch to working with command line instead of Tortoise? will it be safer? No, tortoise SVN does everything you need to do pretty well and without the need for you to learn every command line command. I’ve used it plenty of time, and I never had problems that were related to … Read more
@articlestack According to the trac revision log you added a new directory under your root with the same name as the plugin. It looks like your whole root directory got copied to the new directory because it contains all the tagged versions and trunk. The plugin bot will not be able to find your newly … Read more
Try changing your password @ wordpress.org then retry. If still fails check your firewall log If it still fails … ask Andrew Nacin 🙂 http://twitter.com/#!/blamenacin 🙂
How do I set a custom WordPress update repository?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no general plugin update API, there is only the one Core uses when talking to .org, and it’s the only implementation. Some plugins use filters and hooks to add their own checks to this system, but most don’t, or provide their own parallel … Read more
There are plugins that will let you do this. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-files/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-filebase/ Whatever you decide though keep in mind security when doing things like this. You don’t want people going crazy and uploading huge files either, so check the plugins have built in restrictions on what can be uploaded and that they are in active development.
Dunc, glad you asked about this before it was too late for you. You have heard the right words. You are right, unfortunately the articles tutorials are not very much newbie friendly. Frist let me try to clear some terminology for you. The thing you need to manage your code and keep track of all … Read more
No, the wordpres.org SVN repositories are not for development and there are no plans to change this. So you either have to ask on support forum, or if the plugin is on an open GIT repository search for it on GitHub.
I run a WordPress checkout of trunk, a branch, or a tag. This way I can switch WordPress versions easily: svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.1 In wp-content/plugins I have a trunk checkout for each of my plugins: cd wp-content/plugins svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stats/trunk/ stats I do my work on the stats plugin (updating the changelog … Read more
There are two (2) steps. Add the WordPress.org username of the contributor you want to add to the “contributors” line in the header info of the Readme file, and that person will have SVN commit access to the plugin. Go to the plugin repository and log in with the main account Go to your plug-in … Read more