Add to WordPress Plugins

[candrews]

Can VersionPress be added as an official Wordpress plugin?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/add/

Doing so would make it much easier for users to discover, install, and update VersionPress.

[pavelevap]

Previously: #1291

I do not think that adding Versionpress into official WP repository is possible until at least latest WordPress version is fully supported (Gutenberg).

[borekb]

Thanks for creating this issue. It crossed my mind several times recently as well, here are my current thoughts:

• I'm much more open to publishing to the WordPress plugin repository than I was before, for example, I no longer think that we need to wait post the Developer Preview phase.
• I agree with @pavelevap that Gutenberg should / must be supported first.
• I'm quite curious how the review would go. For example, VersionPress has several system requirements that might not be available in the environment where plugin reviewers test. I guess we'll find out 😄.

Also, quite importantly, there have been discussions recently about our release process – how often to tag new releases, how to ship bug fixes, etc., see e.g. #1433. I personally think that this is a bigger question than whether we're in the plugin repository or not, and there are some complexities around it, for example, our currently documented update process makes the old commits unactionable (they can no longer be undone or rolled back to, which is a major caveat).

So before we publish, we should know answers to these questions:

• How often do we publish?
• If not after every merge to master, do we have another way to provide bugfix builds for those who need them?
• What's our update process? How do we know which versions can keep the Git history and which should make it unactionable? (Migrations are a hard problem, see Migration system for vpdb / INI files #275.)

[pavelevap]

Related issue about updating VersionPress: #384