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I previously had read Why no W

2007-11-05T21:26:55.671+01:00

I previously had read Why no Wordpress, and go Habari as you can see in the comments there. I really appreciated the thoughtful and balanced post, but here it seems something is eating you. Do I think WordPress development and product are ideal? No, and if I did, I would likely move onto something else. As long as things are moving forward, I'm eager to participate -- I like hard problems, and WordPress being so popular and having such diverse participates provides awesome challenges. > As I see it, the "Wordpress.org community" provides > little more than free bug fixes for Automattic. That's the venom I was referring to, and is absolutely ridiculous. WordPress directly benefits. Having read every bug report created in the last year, WordPress has a huge number of diverse participants. There are some great points in your response, but the aggressive nature of your response leaves me not wanting to continue this conversation. If you are interested in having a polite conversation, you know where to reach me.

Man, I've had no joy posting a

2007-10-30T20:12:35.340+01:00

Man, I've had no joy posting a comment here -- no problems on any other blogs. coComment seems to be working again after being broken when last I posted here, so at least I can put it thorough that. I will also take the exceptional step of logging into TypeKey. This time, I was smart enough to make a comment of my comment: Attacks like that, and other posturing by Anil of late has sparked my already honed competitive nature ;-) You could have left it at your apology. The freedoms provided by the licensing of WordPress and PodPress are very relevant in the context of your implicit accusation -- prior to apologizing, and as I described, you are well aware of these freedoms and the important of stewardship, as in other discussions you have spoken to the stewardship that Six Apart will provide when MT becomes *cough* open source. You speak about platitudes, but then how else would one describe parts of that last paragraph in your proceeding comment? "the Movable Type team and in fact all of Six Apart is listening"? I'm happy that you went full circle, creating what sounds like an excellent plugin for MT, and took this journey back to taking care of people. All bloggers benefit from such a climate. PS. Your mention of the Atom Working Group and the importance of the related standards reminds of the trivial fix of TypePad AtomPub support I'm still waiting on over two weeks later. "! Retrieval of Service Document: Content-type must be 'application/atomsvc+xml', not 'application/atom+xml'"

I don't know anything about an

2007-10-30T20:03:20.306+01:00

I don't know anything about an acquisition offer. Our success so far is indeed a great confirmation to a business with open source participation at its core. Christian Mohn, I don't know who suggested to you that code goes from WordPress.com to WordPress on a case by case basic. That just isn't true. In fast that would be stupid of us, as it would create maintenance burden and risk code quality. The business side is all to do with the execution. Anyone with the knowledge, experience, passion and dedication our team has could do the same thing. It is all about the execution, and I'm very happy that I work with the very best. Could we do it without the WordPress.org community? Who knows, but many members of the team wouldn't be interested in finding out. Myself and many members of the team wouldn't sleep well if we didn't feel we were living up to our potential in trying to influence the world to move towards free culture. All WordPress members benefit from WordPress.com and Automattic's successes.

I don't know anything about an

2007-10-30T19:55:11.990+01:00

I don't know anything about any acquisition offer, but I do heartily disagree with your post. First, I ask what is your goal of this post, and what concerns or frustrations are really at the heart of venom? Our success is indeed a great confirmation to a business with open source participation at its core. Trickles back to WordPress? If you have a bone to pick, be straight about it. WordPress and WordPress.com are continuously being synced. It exposes a ton o' bugs in the software, and that benefits every one. I don't know who suggested to you it is a case by case basic. That isn't true. In fast that would be stupid of us, as it would create maintenance burden and risk code quality. The business side is all to do with the execution. You are correct that anyone with the knowledge, experience, passion and dedication our team has could do the same thing. It is all about the execution. You are also correct that open source means a lot more than just releasing code using an open source license. Myself and many members of the team wouldn't sleep well if we didn't feel we were living up to our potential in trying to influence the world to move towards free culture.

It sounds like your customizat

2007-09-25T19:26:13.416+02:00

It sounds like your customizations weren't using the APIs. Do you have more information about what caused the problems?

Shep, it hurts that you see it

2007-09-05T18:17:55.748+02:00

Shep, it hurts that you see it that way, because I have much respect for both you and, of course, Matt, or I wouldn't work for him. I feel bad for Nikolay Kolev being so hostile about an account that he never once logged into, but maybe I've also been there when I wanted to have all the 'foolswisdom' on the web.

Awesome. I will definitely che

2007-08-29T19:33:40.005+02:00

Awesome. I will definitely check this out! Julia and I watched some of the episodes of Strange Days on Planet Earth narrated by Edward Norton. It really blew our mind! (Though we found the production a little too flashy.)

I have long wondered about the

2007-07-05T02:39:00.338+02:00

I have long wondered about the nfs speed issue, but don't have a blog that gets enough traffic to really test out that, because although NFS is intrinsically slow as Db load increases theoretically at some point for the wp-cache to be faster -- but probably before that point it is time to change hosting plans ;-) Now a wp-cache to Db would be interesting ;-)

Hmm, worked here. The post I w

2007-07-05T02:33:00.081+02:00

Hmm, worked here. The post I was commenting on was http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/07/03/macosx-vs-ubuntu/ . Also the a href's to full size images in http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/09/06/dells-media-pc-is-twice-as-expensive-as-an-imac/ 404 . Hope that helps.

When I submitted a comment I e

2007-07-05T02:28:36.064+02:00

When I submitted a comment I ended up at http://www.darcynorman.net/wp-comments-post.php which is a http 404.

Another fantastic podcast! Mo

2007-06-08T22:27:43.668+02:00

Another fantastic podcast! Most if not all of the Automattic team will be at WordCamp. Most members arrive in town right before it. WordPress 2.3 release is planned for September 20, 2007 WordPress 2.0.x main reason for being maintained is a commitment by Ryan, Mark, and others to the people that use WordPress, not whether or not it is included in a Linux distro -- though, of course, we are sensitive to do meet the needs that allow it be included. WordCamp: Matt joined the discussion at http://www.litwc.com/2007/06/07/where-is-the-wordcamp-2007-information-blasts/ and says “it’s coming together” and I am sure registration will be enabled and the 411 will be shared ASAP.

"Nothing to do with comment mo

2007-05-25T17:28:30.016+02:00

"Nothing to do with comment moderation"? I may be mistaken but I think Community Building advice is good if you are disabling Akismet or your other spam plugins for upgrading, best to turn on Moderation first if you do not already have it on. Otherwise, the only default moderation that is protecting you is 2 or links.

PPS. Your zene.lifevine.org li

2007-04-26T19:34:37.048+02:00

PPS. Your zene.lifevine.org link in your footer is missing 'http://', so it is a relative link.

"I don’t think the older versi

2007-04-26T19:32:16.110+02:00

"I don’t think the older versions are being maintained and they should be." As Matt described WordPress 2.0 is being maintained for a long time. I don't think Ryan Filtzer made a "throwaway comment", because it directly response to Wank's assertion that 1.5 is good enough for her. If someone really did want to maintain 1.5 or any version, I would do what I could to get those patches accepted -- though a little link love would be all that was necessary for who ever was maintaining it to be findable. Skippy, I think Habari is an awesome initiative. Claiming "far less bloat" when it is incomplete, by your own words, is a strange assertion. It will be interesting if that assertion is substantiated -- some friendly competition and collaboration. Ray, back to your original questions. With a little bit of subversion (svn) know how you can do the kind of things you described being interested in. Try $svn diff http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.2 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.3 > wp-2.1.2--2.1.3.diff It would be some work, but maybe at some point it will make sense to do something similar to http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/ with embargoed notices.Will that become customers expectations? I don't envy the work, and WordPress is simply, but I hope people's expectations for software quality increases. PS. your "Submit Comment" button looks disabled in Linux/Firefox 2.0.0.3 and is a small button.

I regularly talk, IM, or email

2007-04-23T02:41:27.960+02:00

I regularly talk, IM, or email with people that are thankful that installed WordPress comes with a RTE editor. Finding a RTE editor does not seem to be a hurdle people want to overcome once they get it installed, or often someone else did the install for them. Bulk: maybe, has someone made it into a plugin? That bulk probably buys a lot of flexibility. I was 1st exposed to TinyMCE with Drupal. At Flock we also used it for a whlie in the browser, but it did not make sense b/c a lot of TineMCE's code is to make it compatible with all the different browsers and Flock already knew what browser it was. I wonder what percentage of people that use WordPress were already using it prior to 2.0? Have they suffered to accommodate the larger audience? TinyMCE directory can be removed from your install without any negative experience if you don't like it. Two JavaScript libraries: prototype was there from 2.1 and it would be poor manners to remove it there any time soon. jQuery seems to be the one that people have settled on (for the next while anyway ;-) )

The ideas and the actually pro

2007-04-16T23:14:56.884+02:00

The ideas and the actually projects selected are chosen by the volunteers who are generously donating their time. Next year you are welcome to generously donate your time to mentor a student.

This is exactly what I was loo

2007-04-05T00:32:49.814+02:00

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. (Your config.php seems to missing <?php at the start.)

Thanks for another awesome cas

2007-04-04T19:34:29.796+02:00

Thanks for another awesome cast! "How to get your OpenID URL account to work"? This is the WordPress podcast right? So do it the WordPress way. There are a number of plugins for this, I use wp-xrds by Will Norris. A link to deactivates all your plug-ins is also in WordPress 2.2 . The origin of the recommendation to deactivate all of your plugins is because of caching plugins (photomatt explains) Database Backup is a great plugin and as miklb expresses the Export functionality is not yet comparable. I also look forward to when upgrade is only a few clicks. Before we get there, I am eager for new version of WordPress and plugin notification, which is a hot topic on wp-hackers mailing list. The new Blogger Importer is in 2.2! ;-) The change would just be too extensive to get it into WordPress 2.1 . Using WordPress.com to do the import and then export seems like a reasonable work around, allowing us to focus on getting WordPress 2.2 done. Imagine if Blogger provided an exporter, wouldn't that be nice! Nit: David Weitz is correct about how to say Debian. "It is pronounced as the corresponding syllables of these names in American English: /'dɛbiən/." (from Wikipedia) I made a small donation. Cheers.

Most I hope that all the peopl

2007-03-27T02:30:37.017+02:00

Most I hope that all the people involved will be able to heal.

It is fantastic to hear that t

2007-03-24T23:32:05.380+01:00

It is fantastic to hear that these ideas are being implemented. I am not surprised because you have synergy with many other people that use WordPress, and your desires often reflect their's and vise versa. What browser are you using? Regarding "Search the Post Editor TextArea" Firefox 2.0 has this functionality thanks to Peter Kasting. If I recall correctly IE for quite some time.

Those are some of my favorite

2007-03-21T01:29:29.710+01:00

Those are some of my favorite as well, though I kinda have this thing going with WordPress ;-) This our first your participating, and I am very excited.

My advice to anyone building c

2007-02-19T23:34:47.391+01:00

My advice to anyone building consumer web software is provide a "managed service" if they can. It is the best opportunity to expose problems and successes in all dimensions of a product. Anil, what is "never having to worry about your content being changed" trying to imply? Or maybe I am misreading it.

They suck because fewer people

2007-02-03T05:44:34.839+01:00

They suck because fewer people work on them, and they work on them less time. They suck because people need money to live. Donate half the amount money that you spend on VS.NET to what you think is an open source IDE front runner, or to specific bounties for that project. Or donate your time.

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2007-01-25T20:15:15.056+01:00

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Another wonderful episode! Kn

2006-12-30T20:40:06.799+01:00

Another wonderful episode! KnowNow: I am looking forward to the potential for them to participate in the testing community. Hopefully, they will bring their own expertise and requirements to testing WordPress. David, I didn't quite follow your PayPerPost comment about a Coke employee talking favorably about their employer. I don't think whether the comment is favorable or not is the main issue, but disclosing whether it is is a paid post or you have a vested interest seems like a good thing when the relationship is not clear. As you say there will likely soon be a legal requirement. GPL: GNU General Public License, not the common mistakes of thinking the P is for Purpose or Protection. I asked about the origin of the license's name' a couple of years ago. <a href="http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2006/11/02/ttfn-podz/">Podz prefers Mark now. Keep up the incredible and essential work! PS. the homepage looks odd with "episode n" bold for 11-13 but not 14 or 15.

Wordpress' community has grown

2006-03-16T05:13:15.566+01:00

Wordpress' community has grown and matured since Wordpress 1.5, as has the development team. Sue Gardner [1] during her Northern Voice session on Blog Design for Everyone [2] commented on the large quantity and quality of Wordpress themes (skins). There are a number of sites dedicated to spotlighting good Wordpress themes. http://gerv.wordpress.com/ is available ;-) Other prolific bloggers have just left their previous blogs behind. [3] Links: [1] http://www.buzzmarketingwithblogs.com/member/1/ [2] http://2006.northernvoice.ca/speakers/blog-design-for-everyone [3] http://scoble.weblogs.com/

Maybe it is time to switch to

2006-03-15T05:51:50.737+01:00

Maybe it is time to switch to an open source blogging platform. Wordpress? With the free (but not open source) fantastic service Akismet.

No Paul, Flock's Blog editor i

2006-02-21T22:26:07.186+01:00

No Paul, Flock's Blog editor is not based off of Performancing.

Thanks for the props Paul. Y

2006-02-21T07:48:22.304+01:00

Thanks for the props Paul. Your review of the last release was one of the most insightful! I look forward to some more insights into what we did well and not so well in this release. Now, I am going to have to update that Flickr set, which is already so large that Flickr does not handle it well. -- All the best to you, Lloyd D Budd Flock QA (Qommunity and quality Assurance) Flock / http://flock.com blog / http://foolswisdom.com/~lloyd