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When the drama first started, I thought @photomatt’s plan might be to build ACF directly into WordPress (and maybe get rid of Gutenburg). I’m not sure if taking control of the plug-in is a step in that direction or if he probably could have incorporated ACF without taking over the plug-in. What’s the endgame?
photomatt made a smart move to incentivize the exit of employees who disagreed with him on this important issue (as it would have festered in the company), but I think he offered them too much money.
I agree - he's facing a lot of criticism for reducing diversity or difference of opinion, but you don't promote this in context of your core values and conceptual integrity. You have private debate, reach a decision and then everyone publicly supports the direction. If you don't believe in the decision or can't support it, you need to leave.
100% in support of photomatt on this. Matt, many of your critics are speaking loudly but everyone still loves you for what you've given to the open source community. Hopefully the differences will be resolved.
For this test, you can do it on pretty much any reasonable Linux machine. Longer histories can churn through more CPU and RAM--some of the more aggressive tests I ran for this work involved 20 GB heaps and 50 cores--but you can tune all that lower.
