The quote below is from Joost de Valk, a Dutch entrepreneur who created Yoast, a popular suite of plugins for WordPress. He’s been involved in WordPress development for decades now, so his opinion matters:
We, the WordPress community, need to decide if we’re ok being led by a single person who controls everything, and might do things we disagree with, or if we want something else. For a project whose tagline is “Democratizing publishing”, we’ve been very low on exactly that: democracy.
Matt Mullenweg has joked in the past (and in this Inc. article, which he responded to here) about being a “benevolent dictator for life,” but Joost says the benevolent part is no longer accurate. So he — and others — are calling for a new board and a new structure in which the WordPress trademark is owned by the community or is in the public domain. I wrote about what’s been happening at WordPress in a piece for my newsletter The Torment Nexus.
@mathewi would be interesting to fork it. And place the development of that fork in a cooperative
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@danahilliot Comme tu es abonné à mes 2 blogs via ActivityPub, attends-toi à un message de migration dans les jours qui viennent…
Suis en train d’organiser ma stratégie, que je vais tester sur AMF pour l’instant.
@danahilliot A lire : https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/ par un acteur majeur de l’écosystème…
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