Barry
Systems Wrangler at Automattic
@barry Houston, TX joined Oct 2005
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76contributions
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Contributed to 12 releases
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- 4.6
- 3.9
- 3.7
- 3.6
- 3.5
- 3.4
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June 2026
Jun 13
Sat · 15:35
med
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Sandbox Request, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Hi! Your sandboxs have been provisioned: Hostname: jonsurrell.dev.dca.wordpress.org Hostname: zieladam.dev.dca.wordpress.org You can SSH with the…
Hi! Your sandboxs have been provisioned: Hostname: jonsurrell.dev.dca.wordpress.org Hostname: zieladam.dev.dca.wordpress.org You can SSH with the…
Jun 04
Thu · 22:01
med
Wrote a comment on the post Add SSH Key to Sandbox, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks. Done.
Thanks. Done.
Jun 04
Thu · 21:58
med
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…
Hi! Your sandbox has been provisioned: Hostname: noeltock.dev.ord.wordpress.org You can SSH with the username wporgdev…
Jun 04
Thu · 21:57
med
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?
Ping @yaniiliev - are you done with the old key?
Jun 04
Thu · 21:47
med
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…
you can kill them all and start the stack again. Done. This issue happened when…
Jun 04
Thu · 05:46
med
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…
Can you please normalize the configuration and remove all of these containers you created for…
Jun 04
Thu · 05:42
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…
Sorry, when you ran your "mass scan" in caused the host to OOM and had…
Jun 02
Tue · 09:54
med
Jun 02
Tue · 09:52
med
May 2026
May 28
Thu · 18:25
med
Wrote a comment on the post Installing Node.js 24 on the build server, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
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