I’m happy to see that the core development team behind WordPress have decided to adapt a less chaotic project management method for WordPress 3.0 and beyond. A blog post on the WordPress dev blog, written by Jane Wells, details this well. It also points to a forum thread where the community can discuss what features we really want for 3.0, so that the feature freeze can be set and the work can get a bit more focused.
That is opposed to everyone pushing their very own favorite features and making every release of WordPress grow and grow and grow, before it finally hits feature freeze. Less features per release means more time to squash bugs, and hopefully that will mean that silly stuff like scheduled posts breaking like it did with version 2.9 (the upcoming 2.9.1 will fix that, meanwhile use this plugin) won’t happen as easily. Continued →
