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Barry

Systems Wrangler at Automattic

@barry Houston, TX joined Oct 2005

barry.wordpress.com Slack: @barry

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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    Last 30 days
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    score19
    Last 90 days
    65contributions
    high2
    medium63
    score69
    Last 12 months
    75contributions
    high3
    medium72
    score81

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 4.6
    • 3.9
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4

    Contributions

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    June 2026
    Jun 04 Thu · 22:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Add SSH Key to Sandbox, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Thanks. Done.
    Jun 04 Thu · 21:58
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    Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox request for WordPress.org edits, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hi! Your sandbox has been provisioned: Hostname: noeltock.dev.ord.wordpress.org You can SSH with the username wporgdev…
    Jun 04 Thu · 21:57
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    Wrote a comment on the post Add SSH Key to Sandbox, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Ping @yaniiliev - are you done with the old key?
    Jun 04 Thu · 21:47
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    Wrote a comment on the post Gandalf Docker container outbound networking…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    you can kill them all and start the stack again. Done. This issue happened when…
    Jun 04 Thu · 05:46
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    Wrote a comment on the post Gandalf Docker container outbound networking…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Can you please normalize the configuration and remove all of these containers you created for…
    Jun 04 Thu · 05:42
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Gandalf Docker container outbound networking…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Sorry, when you ran your "mass scan" in caused the host to OOM and had…
    Jun 02 Tue · 09:54
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    Wrote a comment on the post MC Access: coreyhall93, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Jun 02 Tue · 09:52
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proxy Access: Uros, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    May 2026
    May 28 Thu · 18:25
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Installing Node.js 24 on the build server, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    No.
    May 25 Mon · 21:33
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proxy request access for Plugin…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Access granted.

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