[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #8060: Plugins missing when querying by author in Plugin Info API

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#8060: Plugins missing when querying by author in Plugin Info API
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 Reporter:  gazchap           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |
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Changes (by dd32):

 * component:  API => Plugin Directory


Comment:

 This is indeed caused by the `Contributors:` line in the readme not
 containing the plugin author.

 Elsewhere on WordPress.org we include plugins that are '''owned''' by the
 queried user, but in this particular search we're only looking at the
 contributors taxonomy:
 {{{
 WP_Query excerpt:

   public 'tax_query' =>
     object(WP_Tax_Query)[1305]
       public 'queries' =>
         array (size=1)
           0 =>
             array (size=2)
               0 =>
                 array (size=5)
                   'taxonomy' => string 'plugin_contributors' (length=19)
                   'terms' =>
                     array (size=1)
                       0 => string 'woocommerce' (length=11)
                   'field' => string 'slug' (length=4)
                   'operator' => string 'IN' (length=2)
                   'include_children' => boolean true
               'relation' => string 'OR' (length=2)
       public 'relation' => string 'AND' (length=3)
       protected 'table_aliases' =>
         array (size=1)
           0 => string 'wp_term_relationships' (length=28)
       public 'queried_terms' =>
         array (size=1)
           'plugin_contributors' =>
             array (size=2)
               'terms' =>
                 array (size=1)
                   0 => string 'woocommerce' (length=11)
               'field' => string 'slug' (length=4)
       public 'primary_table' => string 'wp_posts' (length=15)
       public 'primary_id_column' => string 'ID' (length=2)
 }}}

 WP_Query doesn't have a good way to do a `post_author = 123 OR taxonomy
 has AUTHORNAME slug`, so this is kinda hard to query purely as a union of
 two data-sources.

 In [14396] I forced the primary owner of the plugin to always show as a
 contributor, instead of doing it at runtime like I did there, it should
 probably happen at plugin import time / author change time so that the
 taxonomy always has the plugin author listed.. which would then solve this
 problem.

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