The end of WordPress on unclehulka.com
I think this sums up why I’ll be getting off of WordPress at some point. I’ve posted before about how concerning it has been to me that they’ve had so many security updates lately. Now it comes out that they released 1.5.2, were informed of a security issue in 1.5.2 and overwrote the old 1.5.2 tarball with a new one containing a patch.
This is just an example of irresponsible engineering and makes me wary of what’s really lurking under the hood. If they can’t be bothered to have good versioning practices, how can I be sure they’ve taken any time to engineer a quality piece of software.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed using WordPress and I think it’s a great program. Shame it seems to be a bit of a mess behind the scenes.
Update: If this is true then I’ll be a bit happier about what happened with regard to 1.5.2’s versioning. I’m still wary of all the security updating going on, though. There just seems to be way too much of that lately.
