[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6957: Plugin Directory: Close plugins with no data

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#6957: Plugin Directory: Close plugins with no data
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:2 Ipstenu]:
 > dd32 I think that check is wrong. I looked at flamix-bitrix24-and-
 wpforms-integration and that's a real plugin with code.

 Between `06/03/2023 05:25:19 PM` and `06/03/2023 05:30:20 PM` that was the
 case as they `rm -rf`'d the lot:
 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2921053/flamix-bitrix24-and-
 wpforms-integration

 Sure, it was only 5 minutes, but I didn't at all intend on that list being
 a "These plugins are ones that have no data" but rather "These plugins are
 the ones we've processed this month which had no data when we looked at
 some point".


 > > Effectively, if trunk/ is empty, we treat it as having a readme.txt
 that contains only Stable Tag: $highest_tagged_version.
 >
 > Yeah, we shouldn't do that. It makes it a metric pain to compare
 changes. If people properly use trunk, then we can just use the change log
 to know.

 If they only use tags and never use trunk, it's actually easier, as you
 can do `svn cp tags/1 tags/2; make-changes-to-tags/2; svn ci` which
 results in a single commit, That's effectively how themes.svn works.

 The Trac compare-changes functionality is often better than reviewing the
 trunk changes alone too, as it's a combined diff rather than 10 individual
 commits, I'll admit however, that Trac (well, SVN) gets it wrong sometimes
 and thinks it's a 80MB diff when it's actually only 200K.

 But I agree, we should ideally cease with that back-compat check here.
 We'll need to figure out which plugins are relying upon it.

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