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Development has dropped off a cliff over the last couple of months. The release cycle has moved from quarterly to yearly. He's basically taking his ball and goi
by cabalos 1y ago
Development has dropped off a cliff over the last couple of months. The release cycle has moved from quarterly to yearly. He's basically taking his ball and going home. My guess is we'll see more internal initiatives like this AI builder instead of focusing on the core product.
This would be an okay strategy if his core product wasn't in such a state of disrepair. I've seen multiple issues on Github projects from Automattic developers saying "this would be easy to fix upstream but we're not allow to fix anything in WordPress right now." It's pathetic and actively harming his own business.
- johnebgd 1y ago[flagged]
- cdolan 1y ago"it's pathetic that no other company benefiting from WordPress has stepped up either" ^<-- hard to justify doing so when Wordpress' package ecosystem (the open source platform) is tethered to Wordpress.org (matt's personal website)
- cabalos 1y agoAlso, good luck sending in a PR and getting it merged. Unless you are part of Matt’s inner circle, it isn’t happening. Even the most basic bug fix PRs are routinely ignored.
- molochai 1y agoDisrepair is too right. 5k issues and 1.7k open PRs on the Gutenberg GitHub repository. I wish this all had happened before Full Site Editing was put into .org.