Tuesday, April 4th, 2006, 10:08 am
WordPress Bug and Trac Repellency
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have this sick habit, which is my tendency to keep track of bug reports I have submitted to projects. As uninteresting as it may be, here is my latest report to WordPress:
[Latest nightly in use]
The appearance of the dashboard is inarguably impressive, so call it a pet peeve perhaps: I find the following box spillover somewhat of an eye sore, which should be trivial to fix. The “Write post” box is extended when the items on the left are expanded, but what about those the reside on the right-hand-side?
I sometimes feel like a bug report which is not recognised or awarded for (if not financially, then at least on a personal level), there is little or no incentive to intervene and assist further.
I must admit that I lost a fair bit of passion for WordPress development. I have been less willing to help once it began to drift onto a commercial agenda (Automattic). But as I digress, I may continue to contribute to a project whose code is GPL‘d; a project that has impact on many sites and enriches people’s on-line experience. I still feel discouraged to do more debugging when somebody else out there gets paid for it. The forum mavens have expressed similar sentiments before.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Roy,
I doubt that you are unaware of this, but the boat you are on is loaded with a lot of people.
Perhaps getting involved in WP-Community.org is something which might appeal to you. It is completely outside of the control of the WordPress mother ship.
As a sidebar, your trackback was flagged by Akismet as being spam. I’m glad that I decided to scan through the four dozen items that arrived this morning instead of my usual routine of clicking on “Delete All”.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Thanks, Craig. I’ll have a look at that reference. I was never too keen on Akismet as a discriminant, but I think it’s a nice initiative which will bloom. It’s not the first time that I find myself falling victim to filters.