Will Wordpress.com 'upgrade' to Wordpress 3.0?

[eyecool]

Does anyone know? Has there been any news?

Before speculation eats me alive, I'm curious if anyone in the community has heard anything.

Thx!

[Ryan]

Will they? Definitely.

Have they? I doubt it. They probably have some trunk code running, but I doubt they're running all of it.

[andrea_r]

Why wouldn't they?

[Ryan]

Why wouldn't they?

Not sure if that's a reference to me or the original poster.

If it's to me, then I assumed they'd wait till it was fairly stable before rolling it out onto their main network. Last I heard trunk wasn't very stable at the moment, but you would know a lot more about such things than I since your hubby is the one doing the committing.

[andrea_r]

To the OP. :)

If you look back historically, a couple times the dot com was upgraded right before official releases of WP. It more has a wordpress mu "layer" than straight-up mu.

[Jane]

Once trunk is stable, new features usually are merged to wordpress.com before we launch the new version because it helps us catch a last round of bugs. wordpress.com doesn't really carry a version number (no version number in footer, no upgrade under tools), because it's always running the latest *stable* code from trunk. So early in a dev cycle, it's mostly running the last version. At the end of a dev cycle as we're getting ready to release, it's running mostly trunk.

[eyecool]

Wow, excellent info. TYVM!

After playing around with the 3.0 trunk, I had an (incorrect) gut feeling that wordpress.com might continue down it's own MU based path. Wordpress.org 3.0 would facilitate a new path for all the single wordpress users in the world to run more than one blog, emphasis on ease of use as opposed to scalability.

Thanks for the clarification!

[Ryan]

Oh, I understand now. I didn't realise you were suggesting that they wouldn't upgrade due to the change in software.