in the end this boils down to the issue of naming and trust, isn’t it?
who says plugin xyz is the one I want and is not confused with another one that is called xyz?
we still did not solve this in a usable and scalable way, did we?
signatures + time chain to the rescue?
I don't think so. I think it's more so about contributions to development versus freeloading off Automattic's work than the TM stuff. I think the TM stuff is just the proxy war.
Sure seems like there’s a whole lot of “personal vendetta” to it, too.
I was always a big fan of Matt and I've especially followed it in the early days of WP. Automattic was always an inspiration as a company. - but I haven't followed it in the recent years and I don't know the current drama...
my comment was more about developing an alternative solution (on Nostr for example).
in a decentralized plugin repository naming and trust is the issue, isn't it?
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