WordPress retaliation impacts community

I’m trying to get a better picture of this. Can someone tell me what percentage of code contributions are paid for by Matt/automattic? If it’s like 99% then I’m a little more sympathetic, I’m reminded of the centos/redhat thing. Either way, peace :)

In WordPress core? I dunno, but I doubt it's as high as 99%, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was way below 50%, most likely way way below.

In the wordpress.org theme/plugin repo that Matt's weaponised in his tantrum? I'd be surprised if it's as high as 1%

I have the impression that many long time contibutors walked away. Since the addition of the Gutenberg editor, I mostly see Automattic employees.

I wouldn't dare to say that other companies don't want to contribute, I do wonder what was and is going on. Outside Gutenberg, there is hardly any change in WordPess.

I mean, it’s a lot. Certainly the majority of regular contributors. Probably 80-100ish full time employees working solely on WordPress OSS projects. (Some in community roles, executive director, tech leads, devs, designers, etc.) There are certainly other regular contributors (Yoast sponsors a couple people to work full time), and lots of volunteers. But without question, Automattic spends a lot of developer time on WP.

And in other parts of the business, there is a strong desire to “fix it in core,” so if WordPress.com wants easier site building for customers, well hey, send devs to help build full site editing in WordPress.