[mtlynch]

What's outlandish about this situation is that Matt blocked WP Engine customers, not WPEngine itself.

It would be one thing if WPEngine had an API key so that customers on its servers could access wordpress.org. Even then, it would be a slimy move to cut off access by surprise as part of this dispute rather than offering 30 days to migrate away.

But Matt is offering this free service to the world to encourage growth of WordPress, and now that he's in this dispute with WPE, he's acting as if WPE is a client who's not paying.

Meanwhile, Matt designed WordPress so that it takes a hard dependency on wordpress.org and doesn't make plugin servers configurable. If it's such a burden on Matt to serve traffic to WPE customers, why is there zero support for mirroring the repository or pointing WordPress instances at third-party mirrors?

[vbtechguy]

There are repos that folks can mirror

https://core.svn.wordpress.org/ https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/ https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

but rest if the infrastructure is needed https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/s/bU4EzLozho

[photomatt]

Today, I offered them a reprieve: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-reprieve/

[angoragoats]

You are commenting on the HN thread for this very blog post. Do you think the person you're replying to doesn't know that you offered a "reprieve"? Why are you not actually answering any questions asked here?