Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, December 4, 2008

Give me a break, if WordPress.com is going to get a “pre-release” candidate then it proves they’re not running WP core anymore. Guaranteed that they’re not running WPMU.

I just wonder how much of a difference their fork really is.

(via Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, December 4, 2008)

WordPress NewsIn an announcement on the WordPress.com blog, WordPress 2.7 will arrive on Thursday, December 4, 2008, at 8PM Eastern Time in the United States.

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  • I don't remember exactly, but did they ever say they were running straight off the main lines of development (either standard or MU) for wordpress.com?

    I know that lots of people who talk about MU have definitely said that, but I don't know if anyone actually involved in the project or from Automattic has. It would be interesting to see if they have, though. I know they've mentioned MU in relation to WP.com, but I think it may have been only for the sake of comparison ("it's 'like' what we use", etc.) not saying they directly used it.

    Anyone who uses WPMU regularly (and follows its development) knows that WP.com is running off of a very different codebase. Normally wpmu is synced up with changes to the regular wp.org development trunk after they happen. They have been getting faster at keeping them up do date, but most of the changes flow from .org into the mu version (other than MU specific features).

    WP.com has significant changes to some of the core files (specifically for distributing the DB across a farm of servers). They probably have lots of other changes as well, although many of those could just be plugins. I think they may have released some of these modifications, but that may have just been a sample or reference implementation, not the full scope of what they actually use.

    I suspect that wp.com runs off of an internal fork that they maintain separately, porting changes to/from the wp.org code base when needed. According to the terms of the GPL, this is totally fine, BTW, since they aren't "distributing" the wp.com application, so it's perfectly OK for them to keep a private copy of their changes to it. However, I can see how it could be frustrating for people who want to use WPMU to offer a competing / alternate service to wp.com, since it would appear that they're giving themselves a bit of special advantage since they run wp.com as well as control the trunk of wpmu.
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