Basically Matt interpreted their “we’re going to take over work within Wordpress since Matt abandoned it” as “we’re taking over Wordpress from Matt” and is telling them through some tortured rhetoric “you aren’t Wordpress, I’m Wordpress, you go do it in a fork instead”
Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.
The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.
It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.
But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.
They weren’t even planning to create a fork.
Matt said his company was going to all but stop contributing to WordPress for now out of spite against WPEngine https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/
These people said “OK we’ll take responsibility for the next release within the current WordPress organization framework so that work can continue”
Matt said nuh-nuh, no you aren’t https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/
Basically Matt interpreted their “we’re going to take over work within Wordpress since Matt abandoned it” as “we’re taking over Wordpress from Matt” and is telling them through some tortured rhetoric “you aren’t Wordpress, I’m Wordpress, you go do it in a fork instead”
Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.
The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.
It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.
But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.
He certainly seems to be labouring under the mistaken impression that he’s a business genius.