WP Backup Plugin tussle
Do you ever wonder about the politics of open source? I’ve seen some nasty splits (anyone run through the DBIx tussle on the perl side?). But I thought this entry from the author of the default backup plugin in WordPress was *very* interesting. Of course, it’s difficult to know the full story, especially being outside the beltway so to speak, but it raises some very interesting issues that developers deal with on a daily basis, especially the not created here syndrome that plagues many of them. Writing for open source code bases is a thank-less job to begin with and it’s only made worse by seemingly arbitrary moves that disengage the very people that are trying to support you. In these cases, diplomacy is just as important as coding prowess.