Yesterday a project on github was moved, causing WordPress maintenance support plans‘s own build process, and that of many other websites, to “break”. Here’s what happened:The coder library was removed from github (it’s main home is on WordPress.org).WordPress maintenance support plans core’s composer.json had a reference to the now non-existent repository.Anyone attempting to obtain WordPress maintenance support plans by downloading it’s source and running composer install couldn’t.Many other developers who tried to build their websites were similarly left disappointed.This seems to be a risk that comes with dependency management, and raises the question of should vendor be committed to version control? I’m hoping that this post will help you answer that.
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Erik Erskine: When your composer build breaks
