@ mention should link to any .org users.

[bph]

When using someone's .org username to mention in the props section, the site only seems to pick up people that are users on the site.

It would be helpful if the mention module would pick up any .org username, so we can give props any people giving feedback and reviews on the posts, or on Google Doc.

[ryelle]

As mentioned, the core behavior is to fetch only current users on the site. We've tweaked the user endpoint before to fetch specific users, but I think there are performance issues with trying to search & fetch lists of wporg users.

[bph]

Thanks @ryelle The PR was merged as a POC but from your comment I deduct that it didn't make it into production? If there is additional work necessary, is there a meta trac issue I can link to and follow? Is it still on the roadmap for future work? I can see that this could also be valuable for other sites and blogs.

[renintw]

@bph After some testings, I found that although only for 'users on the site' would a prompt pop up in the editor (renyot in the first img below is a site user, and rentest in the second img is a non-site user), non-site users still have a clickable link after the post is published (thrid img).

I'm wondering if we are looking to have a prompt for non-site users in the editor as well for this issue, or did I miss other content that has props info besides this type?

img 1 - renyot is a site user	img 2 - rentest is not a site user but is a .org user

img 3 - In a published post, rentest is still a clickable link

[bph]

@renintw Thank you so much for doing further testing. That's good news. If we know it'll be linked on the front end, I think we can live with this. Let's close this issue, too. And I add it to the documentation.

[renintw]

@bph Thanks. It seems like we have closed all the previously mentioned issues that needed to take the Developer Blog out of beta. I guess we could remove "The site is in beta" on the homepage. The remaining issues mostly fall under the scope of the Redesign and may not start in the short term.

[bph]

I agree. @renintw :-)
Next week, I will put together the steps on "Taking out of beta" - Removing the beta section is one, but I also need to update the navigation (content wise ) and find a place for the list of categories to increase discoverability on the front and subsequent pages. Then I will coordinate with marketing team the official launch tasks.

[renintw]

@bph I see. Thanks for the work!

[bph]

Thank YOU for all your great work!