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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.857s | source
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pessimizer ◴[11 Jan 25 22:28 UTC] No.42669452[source]▶
> This post was updated to clarify that de Valk and Marucchi haven’t specifically said they have planned a fork, and that they were hoping to create mirrors for the plugins and themes repositories, while also offering to lead on the next release of WordPress.

The plan was to scrape the site and set up an alternative, not to fork Wordpress. The headline was deliberately written to deceive.

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edit: that being said, a distributed model would be best for all situations like this. I still can't get over the fact that Rust has a github dependency. And I'm sure they're not the only one.

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326

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1. jazzyjackson ◴[11 Jan 25 23:42 UTC] No.42669897[source]▶
Wow, 2016, thanks for that.

I’ll add this gripe from Bunnie of Novena/Precursor/et.al. fame, explaining how he is mulling over freezing the rust version (in fact the xous OS repo has a fork of rust in order to build against something stable), from the most recent update on crowdsupply [0]

The Rust project used to care about Windows as a target, so this work-around feels like a bit of a middle finger to Windows users. Lately, I have been feeling like Rust (and llvm) is giving the middle finger to everything that’s not POSIX x86_64 running in a FAANG-scale cloud environment; they don’t worry about software supply chain security because they are the software supply chain, and of course they trust their own tools. I suppose they are entitled to do that, given who funds their payroll, but it’s not a good omen for projects like ours.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates...