Displaying 1 To 11 Of 11 Comments WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle Unfortunately what this accurate advice reflects is a big-picture problem in the WP community and others like it. If even big open source ecosystems are, much like the broader IT world, unable to sustain m/any journalistic enterprises, then those ecosystems will resemble societies and economies that do not have bright, independent people writing for a broad public interest. Independent, critical and investigative writing mixed in with all the standard “newsy news” is the true sine qua non of open societies — i.e., ones with sufficiently information-rich markets to support innovation, growth, widely distributed benefits and many points of entry for new entrepreneurs. » Posted By Dan On January 22, 2013 @ 1:22 PM Wow this is awesome Im glad the site is going to keep going under your steady hand..this site is a great resource on WordPress.. » Posted By dan On June 8, 2011 @ 10:09 PM Software Releases And The Kitchen Sink I like to err on the side of releasing stuff and seeing if anyone can use or it improve it. I open-sourced three themes that I’ve created, in order to offer my minimalist theme design ideas to the community for one but also because I wanted to be able to say that my WP site runs on a 100% free and open source software stack. » Posted By Dan On November 10, 2010 @ 3:44 PM Plugin And Theme Devs Have Reason To Celebrate Everyone is just going to be a fanboy here, of course. » Posted By Dan On July 30, 2010 @ 12:08 PM WordPress 3.0 Upgrade Woes Starting To Come In I got some blogs over to 3.0 fine, but I’m sort of dreading trying to upgrade my MU install. From what I’ve gathered so far it looks like they’re making going from ‘multi-user’ to ‘multi-site’ a bit convoluted. » Posted By Dan On June 19, 2010 @ 12:35 AM WooThemes Has And Will Continue To Get Credit Probing the psychological motivations of people who contribute to open source projects would be a little bit heavy, but fortunately a majority of them seem to expect their reward to come in a form other than a cheap link ranking boost. » Posted By Dan On June 2, 2010 @ 10:49 PM I’m just wondering, did Michael Torbert pay uberdose, the plugin’s actual creator, for all-in-one-SEO when he took over maintaining it from him? » Posted By Dan On February 15, 2010 @ 3:32 PM WPMU 2.9.1 The Last Version Of MU? You’re piling on pretty late here (5 days)–I think I made it clear above: I used the wrong words (I was referencing the subject matter, not the writing or reasoning quality of his blog, but I should have been more clear); and I think Donncha is a very smart guy. » Posted By Dan On January 26, 2010 @ 1:57 AM Listen, I used the wrong words–it’s just that I don’t know about a lot of the stuff–I meant confusing, because you’re obviously a smart guy and you blog about specific Ireland and EU issues a lot, and I find those EU politics bizarre, just in general. I hope you don’t feel insulted. » Posted By Dan On January 20, 2010 @ 6:17 AM He did a good job most of the time, though I surely won’t miss digging through Donncha’s bizarre, boring blog looking for information about WordPress MU. » Posted By Dan On January 19, 2010 @ 3:33 AM I think that Jane Wells was a bit dismissive toward the community in being so dismissive of you. » Posted By Dan On August 19, 2009 @ 5:57 AMComments Posted By Dan
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So let me point out that a few years ago Matt Mullenweg said “none of the most requested features for WordPress would be any easier (or harder) if they were written for PHP 4 or 5 or Python,” and advocated that we “continue to maintain PHP 4 as like a PHP-lite. Make it harder, better, faster, stronger.”
He also said: “PHP 5 has been, from an adoption point of view, a complete flop. Most estimates place it in the single-digit percentages or at best the low teens, mostly gassed by marginal frameworks. Even hosted PHP-powered services who have no shared host compatibility concerns like 30boxes, Digg, Flickr, and WordPress.com, have been slow to move and when they do it will probably be because of speed or security, not features.”
Wordpress.org has pagerank 9 right now–it’s going to be a target for this kind of posturing from people as long as its number is that high.
If Woo themes had insisted their (PHP) menu system was proprietary, wouldn’t that potentially violate the GPL anyway?
I showed him the respect he deserves by quickly explaining my error; you on the other hand don’t deserve any respect; you’re trying to turn this into a row for no reason. Why are you trying to get involved when this has nothing to do with you?
(Yes you could subscribe to the WordPress MU category in the last year or so, but for a while that was actually impossible because he was using that terrible Feedsmith plugin so the category feed would frustratingly redirect to the whole blog.)
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Jeff, anyone with your level of knowledge and interest shouldn’t be discouraged with bureaucratic compartmentalization corporate-speak the way she seemed to be doing with you, at least the way I heard it on that last podcast.
Now, in terms of the having all the punters show up and whine about their personal laundry list of WordPress issues, that probably would screw up the flow of the meeting. So I understand the basic message that Jane Wells said–but not the way she said it where you seem to have taken it as a kind of personal rebuke.
Someone with their pulse on the community like you should be given carte blanche to speak up–or they should take the chat private.