Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#42376 new enhancement
Beta Download/Install capabilities with Plugins & Themes
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| Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Upgrade/Install | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | administration | Cc: |
Description
Either by Authors choice, or using Beta tag with Semantic Versioning. Plugins & Themes could be able to released as beta versions as an option to Webmasters. Currently, there are few concepts that come to mind.
- Notice in Installed Plugins screen with action to allow updating to a beta.
- Notice (or a list of beta plugins) in the Updates screen.
- WP setting to Opt-in to Betas.
NOTE: Admin Safety might need consideration with extra measures to prevent accidentally installing.
With Developers/Authors, the option would primarily be based on the stable tag, and ( the most beta in tags folder, OR beta tag added ). As well as using a (alpha) beta tag, but brings into question other recent versions with no beta tag.
The purpose could be intended as either a hotfix or a test version. In the past, the availability of beta testers has been very small, and to try to make updates more preemptive.
Thanks for the usggestion, @EkoJr. I had the same thought recently.
This will need some work on the w.org side, including the plugin and theme repos and the API. Ref: #META3236.