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From the article: > Automattic announced that it would restrict its contributions to the open source version of WordPress. The company would now only put in ab
by hn8726 2y ago
From the article:
> Automattic announced that it would restrict its contributions to the open source version of WordPress. The company would now only put in about 45 hours a week total — down from nearly 4,000 a week — so as to match the estimated hourly contributions of WP Engine.
source: https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/ https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-spons...
- frereubu 2y agoAh I see, I thought you were talking about him personally.
- greenthrow 2y agoAre you under the impression he himself has been a meaningful contributor in the last decade?
- frereubu 2y agoI thought I read a comment somewhere in all of this where he said that he was actually doing coding, yes, but (a) I could well be mistaken and (b) he could well have been talking rubbish.
- greenthrow 2y agoI think you misinterpreted him funding development. Read the linked article. Should clear you up. He was funding (via Automattic) an estimated 4k+ hours of work per week and is cutting that back to 45. Not himself coding but people that work for him.
- esskay 2y agoHe doesn't actually do any development himself at all. IIRC his last commit was something like 15 years ago.
- Suppafly 2y ago>down from nearly 4,000 a week Do they really pay that many people to work on development? That's 100 fulltime jobs.
- softwaredoug 2y agoIt does seem like throwing investor money at 4000hrs/week open source development was a ZIRP
- GavinAnderegg 2y agoAutomattic has over 1,700 employees. [0] They had more than 1,900 before the buyouts and departures. [1] With that many people, I’m sort of surprised that they only had around 100 full time staff working on WordPress core. [0]: https://automattic.com/press/ https://automattic.com/press/ [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240801231830/https://automattic.com/press/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240801231830/https://automatti...
- Suppafly 2y agoFull time employees? 1700 employees from 90 countries sounds to me like they are counting anyone that's ever contributed anything as an employee.