Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
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Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: February 25th, 2008
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Website: pascalbirchler.com
- GitHub: swissspidy
- Job Title: Software Engineer
- Employer: Google
Contribution History
Pascal Birchler’s badges:- Core AI Contributor
- Core AI Team
- Core Contributor
- Core Performance Contributor
- Core Performance Team
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Security Contributor
- Security Team
- Test Contributor
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
- WP-CLI Contributor
- WP-CLI Team
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Merged pull request #5961 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Modify `root` warning to take account of system user -
Merged pull request #826 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Closed issue #191 on the wp-cli/core-command repository:
Unexpected HTML output when updating WordPress -
Merged pull request #298 into wp-cli/core-command:
Fix: Suppress HTML output from async translation updates during core update -
Closed issue #156 on the wp-cli/php-cli-tools repository:
Fix unexpected test failure in test_strwidth() -
Merged pull request #189 into wp-cli/php-cli-tools:
Fix test_strwidth() ICU version-dependent behavior for Devanagari conjuncts -
Closed issue #554 on the wp-cli/entity-command repository:
Initial set of block-related commands -
Merged pull request #556 into wp-cli/entity-command:
Add block-related post commands -
Closed issue #41 on the wp-cli/cron-command repository:
Feature request: Add cron arguments into logging -
Merged pull request #120 into wp-cli/cron-command:
Add debug output for cron event arguments -
Merged pull request #823 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Exclude `wp-cli/wp-cli-tests` from Phar -
Merged pull request #606 into wp-cli/handbook:
Fix handbook regeneration workflow -
Closed issue #54 on the wp-cli/.github repository:
Automatically apply standard labels to all repositories -
Merged pull request #170 into wp-cli/.github:
Add reusable workflow for automatic label management across repositories -
Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/automated-tests:
Add suites for new commands -
Merged pull request #825 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Merged pull request #607 into wp-cli/handbook:
Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6 -
Merged pull request #822 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Submitted pull request #823 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Exclude `wp-cli/wp-cli-tests` from Phar -
Closed issue #4 on the wp-cli/block-command repository:
Add `wp block-type exists` -
Merged pull request #8 into wp-cli/block-command:
Add `block type exists` command -
Submitted pull request #606 to wp-cli/handbook:
Fix handbook regeneration workflow -
Closed issue #566 on the wp-cli/handbook repository:
Automate handbook generation -
Merged pull request #594 into wp-cli/handbook:
Fix handbook manifest -
Merged pull request #179 into wp-cli/.github:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #144 into wp-cli/checksum-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #821 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #479 into wp-cli/extension-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #76 into wp-cli/rewrite-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #114 into wp-cli/dist-archive-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #129 into wp-cli/export-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #172 into wp-cli/language-command:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Closed issue #37 on the wp-cli/cron-command repository:
Incomplete test for alternate cron -
Closed issue #442 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
update-po : update PO-Revision-Date -
Merged pull request #463 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Auto-update PO-Revision-Date in update-po command -
Closed issue #6146 on the wp-cli/wp-cli repository:
cmd-dump: include command alias -
Merged pull request #6147 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Add command alias to cmd-dump output -
Merged pull request #6168 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Merged pull request #820 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Merged pull request #145 into wp-cli/restful:
Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 -
Closed issue #395 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
make-php - Make output file content pretty -
Merged pull request #458 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Add --pretty-print flag to make-php command -
Closed issue #65 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Add line number references to extracted file header data -
Merged pull request #462 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Add line number references to file header extraction -
Closed issue #169 on the wp-cli/.github repository:
Add `copilot-setup-steps.yml` file to all repositories -
Closed issue #461 on the wp-cli/handbook repository:
Remove "hub" requirement -
Merged pull request #586 into wp-cli/handbook:
Remove hub requirement from pull-requests documentation -
Closed issue #578 on the wp-cli/handbook repository:
Update documentation for new cli_init action. -
Merged pull request #579 into wp-cli/handbook:
Add documentation for cli_init hook -
Closed ticket #64401 on Core Trac:
Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly
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