Allow easy fallback to the latest stable release when beta testing with the beta tester plugin

[ryan]

The Grand Unified Updater present a Re-Install Now button that allows reinstalling your site with the latest stable release. When using the beta tester plugin to test point release or bleeding edge nightlies, there is no such button. Let's add a "Return to Latest Stable Release" type button to allow a push button means of leaving the beta testing track. Some language warning that the database may have been altered in non-forward compatible ways by the nightlies is probably in order, although in practice our database changes are usually forward compat with old releases.

I think this will be strictly UI changes, with no backend heavy lifting required. The infrastructure behind Re-Install Now should be easy to reuse for "Return to Latest"

Related:

​https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/beta-testing/
​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/

[ryan]

Re-Install Now in the GUU

[ryan]

Add a Return to Latest Stable Release button here.

[dd32]

That's what it looks like currently (with no core changes) if we simply return an update offering for latest along side the development update offering.

[ryan]

Replying to dd32:

That's what it looks like currently (with no core changes) if we simply return an update offering for latest along side the development update offering.

That looks very much like good enough. It reads understandably. Perhaps language that mentions returning you to the stable track would help, but the directness of simply offering 4.2.2 is nice. The visibility of this is only those who have opted onto the beta track. The entire page is a Boren placeholder design in need of a real designer, so, in the probable absence of design help, let's not sweat a somewhat ugly cluster of four buttons that is exposed only to beta testers . :-)

[dd32]

The entire page is a Boren placeholder design in need of a real designer, so, in the probable absence of design help, let's not sweat a somewhat ugly cluster of four buttons that is exposed only to beta testers . :-)

My thoughts exactly. I've had grand plans of getting that page redesigned and actually including the Beta Tester by default for ages now.

I've made the change in the API to return the extra package, if anyone see's any problems, re-open.