…but seriously, the sessions I attended were great and I was able to see the direction that the WordPress project and community are headed. All while having some serious (and fun) discussions (with beverages).<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Devin, Alex, Shane at dinner with WP Engine. Photo credit Raquel Landefeld<\/p><\/div>\n
Here are some of my highlights from a ‘project’ perspective (and perhaps less technical):<\/p>\n
git is coming<\/h2>\n
The tool makes development easier for a number of developers and, if we’re already doing other work with git, why not WordPress development? Sure, Otto says there’s nothing that can’t be done in subversion, but I think this will also help lower a barrier to entry for new developers and contributors.<\/p>\n
the project continues to grow up<\/h2>\n
The lego diagram that Matt showed during his keynote<\/a> closely matches a metaphor I’ve been working on with the Crowd Favorite team on our WordPress page on our in-progress website redesign. Thinking about WordPress as a platform \u2014 which on top of that is a CMS, which on top of that is a blog \u2014 is an interesting way to think about the project’s direction and I hope it starts to drive more of the core design and development decisions (and not simply blog-centric decisions that would have us chasing after competitors like Medium and Squarespace<\/a>).<\/p>\n More technically speaking, there were also some good conversations started around re-organizing the project code and even Open Sourcing more of the project website (http:\/\/wordpress.org\/<\/a>) and the tools themselves. It’ll be fun to keep these efforts moving, mature the operations, and make it easier for others to join and contribute to the project.<\/p>\n I think this point dovetails nicely from the previous two: do the right things, do the best things, and don’t get dragged down by the least common denominator. I think we’ll see this affect decision making for years to come and look back at 2013 as when a lot of this began.<\/p>\nwe should stop accepting bad practices<\/h2>\n