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This and Elm show the issues of the BDFL management model. Good software projects can die due to a midlife crisis. Let's hope WordPress establishes some form of
by brodo 2y ago
This and Elm show the issues of the BDFL management model. Good software projects can die due to a midlife crisis. Let's hope WordPress establishes some form of foundation.
- demosthanos 2y agoWordPress has a foundation. It's just also Matt.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoSure, let's not go into the history of foundations going sideways from the original intention... For good management, no real system is even necessary. For bad management, no system is immune to their incompetence.
- Spivak 2y agoEh, foundation at least keeps business continuity and has the ability to cleanly address a minority of bad actors. Well run foundations (like Debian) can keep chugging along even with stakeholders who bitterly hate each other.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoYou're forgetting the WordPress Foundation exists, with two other co-founders, and allowed itself to get into this mess in the first place without any fight or publicity about Mullenweg's real control. Those two other founders are currently MIA.
- Spivak 2y agoI mean yeah there are failure modes, the WP foundation devolved into a BFDL when other foundation members ghosted and so stopped being a minority of bad actors. Thems the brakes with low participation.
- gr4vityWall 2y agoWhat happened to Elm?
- brodo 2y agoBDFL is burnt out and depressed. I think he's better now (he recently did a podcast), but still no updates for five years.