If you want to take a favorable view of the head of WordPress Matt Mullenweg’s criticism of WP engine, he was concerned about how much they are giving back to WordPress (the way WP Engine’s lawyer portrays it; it sounds like extortion). To do that, he was citing the disparity between their pledged time for WordPress through the Five for the Future program and his company’s. As we noted yesterday, that company, Automattic, claimed to pledging time to a team that appears to have last been active over two years ago. They were not alone, as there were 331 pledges for that team. Many of them didn’t look legitimate. That turns out to be a wider issue.
The Plugin Review Team, which is supposed to handling the security of the WordPress Plugin Directory, among other tasks, currently has 14 listed members: [Read more]
