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As I just lengthily explained<\/a>, I have very little love for corporate hierarchies and all the folklore that goes with it. Ironically, the ostensibly “free” world of major Open-Source development never fails to irk me in the exact same way…<\/p>\n

I have my theories about that, and they mostly have to do with the fact that Open-Source is full of the very same people, who, for one reason or another, might not have made it at the top of the corporate ladder in the traditional world, but are fiercely decided to enjoy the exact same privilege in their own version thereof. Less money, therefore a void to fill, usually by inflating the ego until it touches on all sides. These are all theories… But I do not care to expand on them right this second, if only to add very quickly that Open-Source Software is also filled with an overwhelming<\/em> majority of selfless, dedicated, bright people, who, in the end, bring the balance way into the positive.<\/p>\n

Yet, I do have my beef with many OSS practices in general, and practitioners in particular, but because I have yet to find the recipe for immortality (and just in case you are looking for it too, I can tell you so far that neither baths in young virgin’s blood, nor daily consumption of half a gallon of gin, work), I do my best to spend as little time as humanly possible on such crap. Sure I yammer. a lot. but I am also quite good at packing my marbles and moving to another side of the playground without sulking too much, whenever I really can’t take my little playmates’ bullshit any more…<\/p>\n

In short, we, at Dr Dave Logs Inc., do our best to toe that delicate line between diva whims and lonesome-cowboy-fading-in-the-sunset attitude… something that’s not always easy (especially with these damn stiletto heels on). Mostly, that means staying on the edge of the soccer field, practice against the wall, address a few invectives at the lousier moves every once in a while, and go fill in for the team when there’s an emmergency. Nothing to be particularly proud of, nothing to be ashamed of either. We quite like it that way, and do not intend on stopping any time soon (neither the speaking of ourselves in the plural form, for that matter).<\/p>\n

This is where the author stops, goes back and count number of preceding paragraphs. 1… 2… 3… and… 4 !… paragraphs of disclaimer…
\nI think we are good to go now!<\/em><\/p>\n

When I went to bed yesterday, I was pissed. Very tired (physically, emotionally and mentally), and very pissed. I thought better than posting something then, and anyway, my eyelids firmly refused to stay open, which is kind of a problem to check what you are typing. But I was dead set on opening the shit sprinklers to full power today, as soon as I would have a second.<\/p>\n

And then…<\/p>\n

You know what’s ironic with my decision to stop my daily bottle of Tequila in the morning<\/a> for a month or two?<\/p>\n

You could expect this to make me somewhat cranky: what with the really boring immobility of my surrounding, the apparent emptiness, now that I only see one<\/em> of each object, the awfully bland taste of my morning Orange Juice, when it’s not mixed with Skyy vodka, all that… Despite all that: I feel completely euphoric these days…<\/p>\n

So euphoric, in fact, that I will not, as initially intended, post a ten-page rant on my current issues with the way WordPress<\/a> development is done. <\/p>\n

A rant that would have continued exactly where I left it a few months ago<\/a>, when I went vocal with my concerns that lead devs were basically wiping themselves with the hands of plugin developers. Contending that, while all projects need leadership, the idea of community development is also for dialog to happen, not for one to decide and all to follow.<\/p>\n

Hell, had I felt particularly mean, I might have viciously pointed how a little bit of humility<\/a> sounded like a good idea at the moment. I would have pointed out why it is fucking rude beyond belief to blatantly ignore insistant, yet polite, requests for more disclosure, on all matters… And not talking about detailed bookkeeping either: very silly basic things, like giving some sort of a roadmap and timeframe that isn’t written on the back of somebody’s personal agenda.<\/p>\n

All sort of mean things really… <\/p>\n

And then I would have followed by the announcement that I was hitching a ride out of the WP game. Perhaps not a fork (god, oh no… the day I betrays my faithful chopsticks for a fork, feel free to stab me with either one), but at least a wise retreat to my own grounds, where I no longer have to depend on anybody’s whims but my own (and it may be a lot already, but I tend to have more patience with those).<\/p>\n

That was more or less the plan…<\/p>\n

Instead<\/strong>, this morning, I just brought my laptop out in Tokyo’s long awaited shiny Spring weather, sat in my garden, and took 30 seconds to write a blindingly stupid little script.<\/p>\n

All that script does, is download all code from the SVN server sitting there<\/a>, repackage it a bit (roughly: removing a few useless files), and upload it here<\/a>. OK, it does a few other things<\/a>, but I’ll only be able to tell you about this part in a day or two when I’m done with that part.<\/p>\n

Why did I do this?<\/p>\n

Because I was fucking tired of having a fairly decent plugin<\/a> sitting on my server, while everybody kept on downloading an obsolete version that hadn’t been worked on for many months now, thus ensuring a continuous flow of insults to my mailbox<\/a>. All that because the software it was meant to work with, 6 full months<\/strong> ago, still wasn’t able to release one simple, correctly planned, working version. And sure, “it will be out any day now”, I know that. But the fact that “nobody” deigned giving me a simple answer as to when<\/strong> exactly, meanwhile giving me to think<\/a>, ever so faintly, that one possible reason to delay a release could be to basically pull the rug from under SK’s feet (I know: this is an unlikely one, but the mere thought is quite infuriating).<\/p>\n

As it turns out, in the game of rude behaviours and unilateral decisions, I am not so bad either. Sure, it’s kinda childish, but certainly not gratuitous:<\/p>\n

So, please, go ahead, enjoy and upgrade both WP and SK<\/a> right now…<\/p>\n

More to come soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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