Displaying 31 To 33 Of 33 Comments Hasty Mistake With WP2.8 Header Design Challenge Well, as Automattic expands, not all of the people it employs are going to have a background in open-source software. They’re probably forced to agree to the coolness of the concept in order to get hired, but that doesn’t mean it’s something to which they’re personally committed, or even something that they think about much. I wouldn’t say it’s inevitable that Automattic’s commitment to open-source gets watered down the more mainstream they become, but it’s certainly something the community should continue to watch out for. » Posted By that girl again On April 28, 2009 @ 7:23 PM Well, the Ideas forum started life as a So yeah, like kvetches and codex and the multiple other neglected corners of wordpress.org, it’s one of those historical relics which served a purpose at the time but is now left to moulder. It was always kind of at odds with the ‘show us the code’ ethos of wp-hackers, and I would imagine that over the years the feedback of wordpress.com users has proved to be a more reliable indicator of what people really want from the software. » Posted By that girl again On February 23, 2009 @ 10:57 AM Six Ways In Which WordPress Could Die Actually, I’ve always thought that the main reason MT got overtaken by WP was that PHP is Therefore if another framework were to overtake PHP in popularity, wordpress would be dead in the water. I have no idea when that will happen but I find it difficult to believe that it never will. Anyway, I have my suspicions that either #4 or #5 will do for them before that happens. » Posted By that girl again On February 13, 2009 @ 10:01 PMComments Posted By that girl again
publicity stunt public relations exercise, and as such was never an important part of the project. It was introduced to counter the general impression that WP development was a closed process driven pretty much entirely by Matt. This was around the same time as the Habari pseudo-fork was launched making a big deal out of being a genuinely open and democratic project.
«« Back To Stats Page better generally more user-friendly than Perl ;) If it hadn’t been wordpress, it would have been some other PHP-based platform. Budget webhosts were more likely to offer PHP support than Perl, and to offer automated installation of PHP software. The licencing screwup just speeded up the process.