Just a new major release instead of three: WordPress significantly reduces the number of new versions for this year. About 30 central developers of the Open Source Project decided in a joint meeting on 27 March. According to the announcement, the reason for this is a strong drawback in companies measured in hours. In particular, the number of new features in the processing in Gutenberg Repository has fallen since the beginning of the year, while the volume of Gutenberg and core tickets had been stable in the last six months.
This (hope) would be better
According to the announcement, the participants must have weighed professionals and opposition: just for a release, say that this rhythm was reinforced in other major projects. In addition, developers can focus on quality and improve documentation. Pure bugfix release will no longer be present. Above all, thanks to the time they live, they want to work more on the so-called canonical plug-in. These are the extensions of community-relatives, but they have an official WordPress stamp. These include important functions, which can be distributed and updated regardless of the core release.
In addition, developers want to dedicate themselves to a backlog of about 13,000 tickets on TRAC and Gutenberg’s Githab Repository. WordPress wants to distribute the majority of the resulting bug fix in a minor release. Also, there should be more tickets 'maybelater' be closed; Discussions may continue in these. In general, a large backlog of open tickets can damage the call of a project in terms of its quality.
The announcement also responds to the potential problems of a large release in a year: less response from users can go into new features and developers will have to wait longer to display their work – which can harm the perceived recognition. It is also more difficult to present tasks on many versions. In addition, individual large release when updating users is potentially nervous -system. Finally, WordPress runs in danger as a project that is considered sleeping while sleeping.
Role of automatic
Nevertheless, it was decided that the version 6.8 would be the only major release this year. The version should appear this month. Kadam has no effect on a minor release – neither on their frequency nor on their scope. WordPress will release prominent in the coming years In announcement not specified. WordPress did not respond to this demand in the comments.
This step is explosive, however, since January, especially a company’s contribution has decreased significantly: Automatic, whose CEOs are Matt Mulenweg – and the creator and senior developers are also WordPresses. According to Automatic, this causes WP engines to work with “violent” criticism and personal enmity for the company and company employees. The WP intends to re -achieve its work on the automatic WordPress after a dispute with the engine – but whose end is not in sight. Now it is also the fact that Mulenveg was only to provide relief to its 16 percent of its employees last week.
(FO)
