Who actually decided there has to be a Wordpress 2.8? And why, exactly?
I often wonder who it is that decides there has to be the next version of something and more importantly, when. Heck, I’ve only just managed to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7.1 with its attendant joy of re-learning everything plus finding out (the hard way) which plugins no longer work.
So who is it that decides there has to be a Wordpress 2.8 and when? And, come to think of it, why?
Look, I’m no luddite. But the difference between evolution and upgrade-mania is that evolution happens s l o w l y. Nor does it happen just for fun or simply because the universe’s techies need to solve problems that don’t actually exist.
Why couldn’t we have planned upgrades? Hmm? Say, once a year on the same day? Then, we could all look forward to it together and perhaps even declare a national holiday.
Upgrade Day: a whole day off to sort out all the chaos created by the latest upgrades.
You have missed that essential point Sam.
Actually you have missed two essential points.
1.Upgrades are there to create chaos and in its wake sell solutions to that chaos.
2.Techies are worse than DIYers they love changing things because they can.
My recommendations are as follows;
1.Have a National Holiday because it is good and we can all bond over upgrades.
2.Fit electronic prods to the designers so that we can register our disapproval via a few watts.
Iain
I go with your recommendations Iain. I think the prods should be ‘reputation-linked’ so that they fire off at the first Tweet that mentions some plugin not working.