[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5645: Feature Request: Update on reversion to `trunk/`

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#5645: Feature Request: Update on reversion to `trunk/`
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 Reporter:  rumperuu          |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  high              |  Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |   Keywords:  security,UX,logging
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 Hi,

 We encountered an issue yesterday when I accidentally triggered the
 release of a broken development version of our Plugin. A full post-mortem
 is available at https://github.com/markcheret/footnotes/issues/55, but in
 short it was due to me not realising that changing the ‘Stable Tag’ field
 to the development version (2.5.9d1) in `trunk/readme.txt` would cause the
 WP Plugin Directory to parse it as a new version, look for the
 corresponding `tags/2.5.9d1/` and, upon failing to find it, revert to
 `trunk/`.

 We've reviewed the issue and changed our release process to avoid it
 happening again in future, but I'm willing to bet that I'm neither the
 first nor the last person to make such a mistake.

 Part of the issue was that none of us received any notice that the SVN had
 defaulted to using the code in `trunk/` (as we usually do whenever a new
 tag or revision is committed), which would have quickly alerted us to the
 fact that something was wrong. I would like to request that some sort of
 fallback notification email be implemented in order to help developers to
 catch such cases.

 Without knowing the technical ins and outs of the Directory system, I've
 thought of a couple possible pseudocode implementations of this:

 ```
 if ((stable_tag !== 'trunk' or null) and parsed_stable_tag == 'trunk')
 send email
 ```
 or
 ```
 if (parsed_stable_tag == 'trunk' and tags/* exists) send email
 ```

 Thanks,
 Ben

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