FAQ

waggypuppy Frequently Asked Questions

What is waggypuppy?

A "hard" fork of WordPress 6.7 (sometime during 6.7 beta, specifically this commit from 2024-10-05)

Why a fork?

Suffice it to say that the leadership of WordPress has lately become an impediment to the continued good health of the WordPress core and its entire ecosystem. I'll leave it there: it would make my year if there came a time when people actually forget why we forked or who the dramatis personae were when it happened.

Cute name, but are Serious Business Users™️ going to adopt it?

Probably not. waggypuppy is trying to avoid success at all costs. It's intended to be freely forked and hacked on, and maybe someone else can turn this into a software artifact you can put a suit on.

Why was the version history for WordPress not kept?

First it saves 200MiB worth of repo size, but that's not the main reason. As a hard fork, there will not be further updates from upstream WordPress, save for those that are ported manually. It makes little sense to keep tracking an active branch (trunk) that largely can't be cherry-picked anyway due to the major divergence caused by refactoring.

How is waggypuppy properly capitalized?

All lowercase, always. waggypuppy should be lowercased even at the start of a sentence. lowercase everything, dangit!