I understand that.
It seems the basic assumption is that it is better when more people contribute, right?
I am in no position to argue for or against that.
I can compare the contributions to WordPress with the ones to Angular and React though.
Looking at the number of commits in the last 5 years:
we see that the situation is similar or worse than WordPress.
Hopefully, despite the few contributors, the development team of those projects works in an excellent way!
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The issue is that on WordPress the contributors are always the same in those projects that are for just devs (so the target is completely different) and also focused in one language there isn't so much gatekeeping.
New contributors are important, but also skilled that can help are missing in the WP so can get only worse as if you lose the biggest contributors how keep moving on the project itself?
We have to consider that the majority of WordPress users are never watched a php line of code.
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I understand that.
It seems the basic assumption is that it is better when more people contribute, right?
I am in no position to argue for or against that.
I can compare the contributions to WordPress with the ones to Angular and React though.
Looking at the number of commits in the last 5 years:
we see that the situation is similar or worse than WordPress.
Hopefully, despite the few contributors, the development team of those projects works in an excellent way!
The issue is that on WordPress the contributors are always the same in those projects that are for just devs (so the target is completely different) and also focused in one language there isn't so much gatekeeping.
New contributors are important, but also skilled that can help are missing in the WP so can get only worse as if you lose the biggest contributors how keep moving on the project itself?
We have to consider that the majority of WordPress users are never watched a php line of code.