javiDec 20, 2024
If you don't work in the WordPress ecosystem, you may not understand how HUGE this post is



https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/



Joost is probably the second biggest figure in the entire WP ecosystem, only after Matt M himself. He is the biggest voice from the "Enterprise WordPress" world.

This is not anymore open source contributors complaining about governance. This is the Business WordPress demanding a leadership change and suggesting it either happens or a hard fork, backed by big business, is on the way.
Breaking the Status Quo

A vision for a new WordPress era WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alone for a bit until after the holiday break, until, last night, Matt imposed a holiday break on us all. ... Read more

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To be clear, Joost doesn't mention a hard fork, but one of the things he demands is moving from WordPress' centralized plugins and themes repository to a "federated and independent" repositories, and he mention this needs AND CAN be done whether MM agrees or not. I don't see any way to do this against MM wishes that doesn't end in a fork
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Just noting: Interesting that he's calling for a decentralized network of federated repos; not as an ideological abstraction, but because it can be the practical solution to a problem, which originates as a centralization of power
Dec 20, 2024 at 9:44pmWeb