Wordpress CEO after WP Engine's head

I guess that would in ideal world be good for WordPress in contributed development hours. Though there's still no legal requirement to do that. So Matt is trying to use trademark law to force them into the requirement which doesn't seem right to me. Though to me doesn't seem right that WP Engine doesn't contribute back - but there is no legal requirement to do so.

Thinking of my Centmin Mod project, it's open source GPLv3 licensed and all code available on GitHub and free and itself was originally a fork of the original Centmin project https://community.centminmod.com/threads/history-of-centmin-mod-from-2011.22733/. The whole reason that Centmin Mod exists is originally due to original Centmin project. Though pretty sure my amount of contributed code has since far outweighed the original code now

I know of many folks in system management services or web hosting using Centmin Mod to make a living from https://community.centminmod.com/threads/attention-future-centmin-mod-experts.8021/. Would I like them to contribute back to Centmin Mod if they can? Sure in an ideal world but there isn't really legal requirement to do so.

I've built and developed Centmin Mod LEMP stack on alot of folks open source code too - Nginx, PHP, MariaDB. If I could financially afford to contribute back I would - unfortunately I can't so I see it from both sides as Centmin Mod developer and myself a consumer of open source software.

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Looks like workaround has been blocked too x.com ?

 

just checked WPEngine is ranked 30th for total hours contributed to WordPress Pledges | Five for the Future

 

Matt is trying to make same argument that CentOS did about blocking AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux source access. The code is free but the infrastructure CentOS provides isn't. So Matt said WPEngine can spin up their own infrastructure to access code etc.

Seems Bluehost has such a mirror in the past GitHub - bluehost/pluginmirror: WordPress Plugins GitHub Mirror Application

 

More info from Automattic Responds to WP Engine’s Cease and Desist with Legal Action – WP Tavern

Matt also attended a Twitter Spaces discussion and Courtney Robertson has shared an AI-generated version of its transcript x.com

 

Nice read Misconceptions About Matt, Open Source, and Contributions - Brian Coords

And Transparency, Contribution, and the Future of WordPress

WordPress Bans Thousands Of WP Engine Customers

 

Yeah Stripe claim has been debunked already.

Came here to post that October 1 reprieve news but beat me to it

Curious how much data needs mirror cloning out of wordpress.org SVN repos for core, plugin and themes site. For a Web host like WPEngine should not be an issue though.

 

Matt's actions are getting petty!

 

Yeah but the timing

Discussions to solve Matt's control over distribution of WordPress code, themes and plugins https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frd37p/its_time_to_solve_the_singlepointoffailure/

Recently been working on newer featured forked csync2 2.1.1 custom RPM builds for AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux which have atomic file updates, nanoseconds support and parallel node updates via inotifywait triggers. csync2 2.0 is too old!

Was thinking could setup multiple csync2 2.1.1 server nodes each with HTTP forward proxies + proxychains proxy rotation and have servers configured to clone the WordPress SVN repos from any of the csync2 node servers and have updates automatically sync to all csync2 nodes

 

Did some investigating there seems to be 102,666 Wordpres plugins in Wordpress SVN plugin repo but if cloning/mirroring, you'd need to take into account non-English named plugins!

Code (Text):

proxychains4 svn list https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ > wp-plugin-svn-list.txt
[proxychains] config file found: /etc/proxychains/proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/libproxychains4.so
[proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.17-git-3-g1760c93
[proxychains] Dynamic chain  ...  192.168.122.60:8081  ...  plugins.svn.wordpress.org:443  ...  OK

102,666 Wordpress plugins

Code (Text):

wc -l < wp-plugin-svn-list.txt 
102666

Code (Text):

head -n5 wp-plugin-svn-list.txt 
0-delay-late-caching-for-feeds/
0-errors/
001-prime-strategy-translate-accelerator/
002-ps-custom-post-type/
011-ps-custom-taxonomy/

Code (Text):

tail -5 wp-plugin-svn-list.txt 
日志保护/
海阔淘宝相关宝贝插件/
社交登录/
腾讯微博一键登录/
豆瓣秀-for-wordpress/

 

Indeed, from technical perspective at least getting a WordPress SVN local mirror of important files I rely on myself seems like something I want to tackle. Already coding up something along with above csync2 2.1.1 + proxychains setup as a proof of concept for my own personal use. Just want to see if I can do it

From Verge article's comments The messy WordPress drama, explained, this WordPress developer touched on one sentiment from this drama

 

Shared my thoughts and suggestions for this at https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frd37p/comment/lphw6ma/

 

Further escalation from Matt https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frrd0i/live_now_theo_t3gg_interviewing_matt/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frrd0i/comment/lphcp1q/

 

I was curious and created a proof of concept script that mirrors WordPress SVN plugin repositories. It supports optional parallel processing and proxy rotation using proxychains. The script tracks the latest revision of each plugin and only updates plugins that have changed since the last sync. The script can mirror all plugins in SVN or selectively mirror specified plugins from a list.

So for a quick test on AMD Ryzen 5950X dedicated server with 16 CPU thread created KVM VPS via libvirtd, I selected 53 of my most commonly used or would want to use WordPress plugins to mirror.

• For initial SVN checkout, that took me in single thread non-parallel mode ~265 minutes to mirror - which is ~5 minutes per Wordpress plugin. There was at last check, 102,666 WordPress plugins listed in their SVN plugin repo so would take 513,330 hours or 21,389 days to mirror all 102,666 WordPress plugins in single thread non-parallel mode LOL.
• For second re-run of script in single thread non-parallel mode which skips WordPress plugin svn update if already up to date, the 53 plugins all skipped svn update and script took 37 seconds to complete.
• Cleared the mirrored data to start from scratch for initial SVN checkout in parallel mode running 8 parallel svn checkout commands to process 8 Wordpress plugins at a time and took ~ 39.5 minutes (~45 seconds/plugin) to mirror the selected 53 plugins. So 102,666 plugins would take ~76,515 hrs or ~3,188 days to mirror so a 6.7x speed up with 8 parallel svn checkout commands.
• Disk space for just those 53 plugins took up 41,637,236 KB. So maybe need at least 80-100TB of disk space for all 102,666 WordPress plugins and all SVN history and files?
• So probably need to divide the mirroring workload across several servers with parallel svn checkouts to get all the plugins in a timely manner if starting from scratch without any existing checked out data.

Code:

ls -lah /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public
total 4.0K
drwxr-sr-x 54 root nginx 4.0K Sep 30 04:10 .
drwxr-sr-x  3 root nginx   20 Sep 29 23:47 ..
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:15 advanced-custom-fields
drwxr-sr-x 10 root nginx  110 Sep 30 00:15 akismet
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:16 amr-cron-manager
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:16 assets-manager
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:16 autoptimize
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:16 better-search-replace
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:16 classic-editor
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:18 clearfy
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:20 cloudflare
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:21 code-snippets
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:21 contact-form-7-simple-recaptcha
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:21 disable-xml-rpc
drwxr-sr-x  6 root nginx   57 Sep 30 00:21 disable-xml-rpc-api
drwxr-sr-x  8 root nginx   90 Sep 30 00:21 disqus-comment-system
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:21 disqus-conditional-load
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:22 featured-image-from-url
drwxr-sr-x  6 root nginx   57 Sep 30 00:23 fluent-smtp
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:23 flying-pages
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:23 flying-scripts
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:53 google-site-kit
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 00:53 health-check
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 02:59 jetpack
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:05 learnpress
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:05 lightweight-social-icons
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:26 matomo
drwxr-sr-x 11 root nginx  187 Sep 30 03:27 minimal-analytics
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:27 native-lazyload
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:27 nginx-helper
drwxr-sr-x  6 root nginx   57 Sep 30 03:27 preload-featured-images
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:28 query-monitor
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:28 reading-time-wp
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:29 redis-cache
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:29 remove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:30 seo-by-rank-math
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:32 shortpixel-adaptive-images
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:33 shortpixel-image-optimiser
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:34 simply-static
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:35 sucuri-scanner
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:49 updraftplus
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:52 webp-express
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:58 wordfence
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:59 wordpress-importer
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 03:59 wordpress-popular-posts
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:05 wordpress-seo
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx  120 Sep 30 04:06 wp-accessibility-helper
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:06 wp-add-mime-types
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:06 wp-crontrol
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:06 wp-fail2ban
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:09 wp-mail-smtp
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:10 wp-super-cache
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:10 wpperformancetester
drwxr-sr-x  7 root nginx   73 Sep 30 04:12 yet-another-related-posts-plugin

Sort from largest disk space consuming WordPress plugin descending for the selected plugin SVN mirroring. Dam some are large!

Code:

du -h --max-depth=1 /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public | sort -hr
40G     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public
14G     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/jetpack
5.9G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/updraftplus
4.4G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/matomo
2.6G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wordfence
2.5G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/google-site-kit
1.9G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/learnpress
1.8G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/advanced-custom-fields
1.6G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wordpress-seo
1.2G    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/webp-express
624M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-mail-smtp
599M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/cloudflare
480M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/yet-another-related-posts-plugin
387M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/shortpixel-image-optimiser
341M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/clearfy
296M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-super-cache
291M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/shortpixel-adaptive-images
226M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/seo-by-rank-math
204M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/redis-cache
203M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/fluent-smtp
187M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/disqus-comment-system
180M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/simply-static
165M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/sucuri-scanner
129M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-fail2ban
115M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wordpress-popular-posts
113M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/disqus-conditional-load
99M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/code-snippets
90M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/autoptimize
86M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/query-monitor
46M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/featured-image-from-url
39M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/akismet
36M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-accessibility-helper
29M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/nginx-helper
23M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/disable-xml-rpc-api
19M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/reading-time-wp
15M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-crontrol
14M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/health-check
13M     /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wp-add-mime-types
7.7M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/better-search-replace
5.3M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/classic-editor
4.9M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/contact-form-7-simple-recaptcha
4.2M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/lightweight-social-icons
3.8M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/remove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping
3.1M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/flying-scripts
2.8M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/flying-pages
2.8M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/assets-manager
2.7M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wordpress-importer
2.3M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/minimal-analytics
1.8M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/disable-xml-rpc
1.3M    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/wpperformancetester
936K    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/preload-featured-images
716K    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/amr-cron-manager
672K    /home/nginx/domains/plugins.domain.com/public/native-lazyload