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The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
Back in December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. That post ended with a call: we need to lead. That wasn’t rhetorical. It was a ... Read more
I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. All together, they built, in a relatively short amount of time, a decentralized package management system, federation-ready mirrors, support for commercial plugins, cryptographic signing, and more. This work builds on tools like Composer and package managers from the Linux world, but with a clear focus on usability for real WordPress users.
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