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Handling catastrophic release failures

Dwain Maralack edited this page Sep 8, 2020 · 3 revisions

We try our best to put out a stable product, but the unfortunate happens some times and we release the plugin and our users find things that we missed during testing.

In some specific cases, we've seen catastrophic bugs that totally destroy a client's site or simply stops them from being able to accept payments. In these cases, we should take very specific action to ensure that the damage is limited.

Step 1 - Rollback the stable tag on WordPress.

  • Edit the readme.txt and change Stable tag back to the previous release.
  • Commit this to SVN with an appropriate message.

Step 2 - Inform HE's