[wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

[John Bloch]

Yes it's a community. Like any other community, there are leaders and prominent figures in that community. Take Andrew Nacin, for example. Hardly anybody knew his name a year ago. And now he's a core contributor, because he earned that respect. Nobody's going to stop you from joining the community and becoming a prominent voice, but nobody will listen to someone who contributes nothing productive. I'm not saying you have nothing to contribute, but trashing Matt and the rest of the devs for their contributions doesn't help, especially if you didn't participate in that discussion to begin with.

Changing Wordpress to WordPress is not something to get up in arms about. I know people that replace lists of offensive words with four asterisks. Can they now not use WordPress because they're violating the written contents of those writers? That seems like a bigger violation of 'written content' than this, doesn't it?

On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Gavin Pearce wrote:

>> WordPress isn't Matt's company, it's the community's project.
> 
> Sure doesn't seem that way here ...
> 
>> If you wanted to influence the direction of core, you should
> contribute and earn the respect that will get you that influence.
> 
> I thought you just said this was a community driven project, not one
> directed by a small number of core people with 'influence'?
> 
>> WordPress also changes regular quotes to curly quotes with a filter,
> and -- to en-dash and --- to em-dash and ... to elipses?! OH THE
> INHUMANITY!!!
> 
> That's not written content as such though - which is the issue here.
> (Though I must admit to having that switched off also).
> 
> Gav
> 
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> 
> WordPress isn't Matt's company, it's the community's project. This
> addition to core was discussed in dev chats just like every other
> addition in WordPress. Like Matt said, WordPress development is a
> meritocracy. If you wanted to influence the direction of core, you
> should contribute and earn the respect that will get you that influence.
> I've been watching this thread for the last two days and think this is
> the silliest argument I've ever seen. If you don't like the filter,
> remove it! It's one line of code. Did you know that WordPress also
> changes regular quotes to curly quotes with a filter, and -- to en-dash
> and --- to em-dash and ... to elipses?! OH THE INHUMANITY!!!
> 
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Thomas Belknap wrote:
> 
>> Wait, Matt, holy crap.
>> 
>> You've spent the better part of two days fueling a debate that would
> have
>> been long-dead without you engaging and then you bemoan the civility
> and
>> quality of this list's posting? I keep having to throw away emails
> that
>> contribute *absolutely nothing but a P* to WordPress or my life, but
> you
>> claim the moral high ground?
>> 
>> Its your company, I suppose.
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