Over the past two days, we have noted what appear to be large problems with the pledging of time to the WordPress Five for the Future program. That is important as the head of WordPress was criticizing a competitor of this for-profit company, Automattic, over there much smaller pledging to that. One thing that we found was that Automattic is pledging time to a group that appears to have been inactive for over two years. We also found that a team with 14 listed members had 338 people pledging contributions to the team. It turns out the divergence between members and pledges can go even higher than the 24 times for that team.
On July 25, an update was put out for the Community team stating that there were 60 people that contributed to the team: [Read more]
