[1]to be specific, the guys named at the top, (not sure if Liz Danzico is part of happy cog, but who’s counting). The important point is that these two powerful bodies have publicly intertwined in the production of WordPress v2.5.
In some respects, this is not surprising, these teams share a common love of web standards. It’s just very interesting to see that the commercial happy cog and the open source WordPress.org have worked together.
I am intrigued by the route taken for this to have happened. Was it as simple as WordPress.org spending money at happy cog or was it happy cog wanting to further the web standards goodness produced when a new copy of WordPress hits the Internet? I may never find out. And I don’t mind that I won’t — I am just glad that this has happened.
The result is rather a large step forward for the WordPress admin / user interface. While any such large change to a project that is open source (and not bottomless in terms of resources) must develop at a pace it can afford and so compromises must sometimes be made, it is nevertheless a wonderful thing to have happened and I am mightily pleased and thankful to messers happy cog and WordPress for their excellent work.
