Forking, branching and flavoring WordPress

There’s been a lot of discussion in the community – on Twitter, Reddit, in the Slack community for AspirePress – about forking the WordPress project and taking it away from the Powers That Be(tm) and making it truly community oriented. I wanted to share some thoughts that have come up around this in our community with the broader WordPress community. Forking Forking is an act that says “thank you for what you’ve done; we’re going… continue reading.

Update on the “single-point-of-failure” problem

tl;dr: Review the tl;dr on this post and then read this: the plugin and themes repos are downloaded, scripts written to keep them up to date, plans in place for replicating the APIs, and also for allowing plugin authors to distribute directly to AspirePress CDN. Also, we have a major CDN backer for data transfer. Community matters, and you all are important. Recap For those of you just joining the conversation, here’s a short recap:  … continue reading.