I’m just a few days away from deleting my Twitter account1 and don’t want to reply directly there (it will also railroad the original discussion, which I also don’t want), so will make use of a WordPress-powered blog to do so.
But, sorry, Torsten, you’ve missed the point of my talk.
At no point did I blame anyone but the developers for the issues. Indeed, my belief is that we need more accountability by the developers, rather than more resources to counter poor quality coding.
But, that’s not to say how things are on the .org side are perfect, I just believe there are better ways of doing it.
I recently submitted a new plugin to the directory and it took 2 months to get a response, and then it was to reject it. None of the reasons it was rejected was something I was aware of and, equally, none were documented in the guidelines. So, I fed this back. Which is how we, when we feel it’s not our fault as a developer, can improve the process.
If we have the guidelines in place, and developers take some responsibility, then the numbers of people reviewing plugins no longer becomes a concern.
- Twitter/X/Whatever has recently become a cesspit of right wing hate and conspiracy theories that I can no longer be part of. I messaged I was doing this and gave myself a week, to allow anyone following me to see it, before I actually performed the account deletion. ↩︎
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