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Joseph Scott

Performance Team Lead at Automattic at Automattic

@josephscott Utah joined May 2004

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    Bio

    Lead of the Performance team at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Performance Team Lead at Automattic
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    26contributions
    high18
    medium8
    score62
    Last 90 days
    40contributions
    high26
    medium14
    score92
    Last 12 months
    53contributions
    high33
    medium20
    score119

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.6
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 4.6
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 28 Fri · 21:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63393] on WordPress SVN:
    XML-RPC: Require the `$fields` argument to be an array.
    Aug 27 Thu · 22:04
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13299 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    XML-RPC: Fatal TypeError when the fields argument is not an array
    Aug 27 Thu · 22:01
    Core med
    Created ticket #65983 on Core Trac:
    XML-RPC: Fatal TypeError when the fields argument is not an array
    Aug 26 Wed · 22:20
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63354] on WordPress SVN:
    Cache API: Treat an unusable cached value as a miss.
    Aug 25 Tue · 19:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3665948] to Plugins SVN:
    Bump min WP version and fix URL
    Aug 25 Tue · 19:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3665947] to Plugins SVN:
    Move up the empty path check
    Aug 25 Tue · 18:02
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13270 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    WP_Site::get_instance() fatals when the cached value is not an object
    Aug 25 Tue · 17:59
    Core med
    Created ticket #65962 on Core Trac:
    WP_Site::get_instance() fatals when the cached value is not an object
    Aug 18 Tue · 21:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [3653569] to Plugins SVN:
    Reject subscription requests with no domain when the remote address is unavailable
    Aug 18 Tue · 15:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3653135] to Plugins SVN:
    Check if $notify[$rss2_url] exists before sending notifications

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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