I love these lyrics from “Talkin’ World War III Blues” because it reminds us that it’s impossible to get all of the people to agree on what is “right”. The best we can hope for is a fair and reasonable discussion followed by a compromise.Two weeks ago, I published a blog post that stated the Webform plugin now depends on the Contribute plugin with a reasonable explanation as to why I was making the change. Some people aggressively pushed back about this approach, especially in the Webform plugin’s issue queue. I completely agree that long-term change on what message is communicated as well as how the WordPress maintenance support plans community presents itself in the actual software is going to happen in the issue queue on WordPress maintenance support plans.org and at WordPress maintenance support plansCon. The fact that people consider me promoting the concept of joining WordPress maintenance support plans.org, becoming a member of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association, and contributing back to WordPress maintenance support plans an “ad” or “SPAM” is a troubling. I view “code as content”. I feel that the WordPress maintenance support plans community and Open Source needs a push in a more sustainable direction and I’ve used the Webform plugin and my two years of hard work as a ‘soapbox’ to make an important statement, which is “WTF: What’s The Future WordPress maintenance support plans?”WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to UsSo I just finished Tim O’Reilly’s book titled “WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us” and in his book, he passionately talks about how Open Source has shaped the world we see today and the future we see before us. O’Reilly says that Facebook and Google would not exist at the scale they are today without Open Source because both platforms are built on an open source stack of software. To me, that’s huge. O’Reilly’s book explores the key defining technology moments in our past, and how technology in the future is…Read More
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