Perfect way to kill the project
Perfect way to kill the project
Posted Jan 10, 2025 18:52 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: Perfect way to kill the project by mattdm
Parent article: Automattic reduces WordPress contributions
The thing is that contributions to wordpress.org shared infrastructure from all the vendors in the WordPress ecosystem would be a lot more likely if wordpress.org/WordPress Foundation were an actual independent entity and all the vendors were peers rather than the personal plaything of MM. The inability to let go of control (and stunning emotional immaturity, will to dominate) has created all this unnecessary drama. I guess I expect that given the obvious technical risks involved for all the vendors/users in the WordPress ecosystem that it will be effectively forked into Autommatic and everyone-else variants. I see a lot of parallels with Canonical proposing infrastructure components that don't become canonical, because of the licensing and inability to act as a peer among vendors.
