Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right

Link: Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique, by Rae Morey in The RepositoryI’m going to put my neck on the line on this story about Matt Mullenweg’s criticism of Wordpress’s open source release culture:“WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has delivered a wide-ranging critique of the WordPress project, saying it has spent years doing damage to itself and calling out a release culture he says produces ‘boring or mediocre crap.’”It goes on to describe Mullenweg’s frustrations with an open source culture that prevents anything being released without a wide-ranging discussion that brings dozens of people into the thread.“We are not being killed by competition, I believe we have done this to ourselves. We did it by blindly following rules and ideals to a point when they became iatrogenic. […] By definition the things that will give us the biggest wins will be the most non-consensus, so we have to accept the occasional failure or mistake…