[wp-hackers] 24-hour has-patch marathon TODAY

[Matt Martz]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Daniel Torreblanca
<regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm this is the first I've heard of this. It would've been sweet if
> there'd been some advanced notification, I definitely would've set
> aside time, but now I have stuff to do and won't be able to
> participate.
>
> It kinda sucks how little communication there is to the wp-hackers
> list from Automattic. I read the WP dev blog and subscribe to this
> list, and I haven't heard anything about this until just now. Is there
> some other location where this type of communication happens? IRC? I'd
> imagine that anything important mentioned in IRC would have to be
> archived somewhere like in a mailing list. I feel like this list (and
> the people who subscribe to it/contribute to Wordpress) have pretty
> much been ignored/abandoned by Automattic and the core WP team. We
> have no direction here, and as a consequence spend more time arguing
> and blowing hot air than getting anything done. Since I don't like
> wasting my time in this manner, I contribute less to this project than
> I would like to, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
>
> /rant

If you read the dev blog then you should have heard about this 2 days
ago when the post was made.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/the-super-awesome-wordpress-24-hour-has-patch-marathon/

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Matt Martz
matt at sivel.net
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