Ryan McCue's Befitting Response to Key Person Dependency in OSS Projects

WordPress developers are concerned about which new JavaScript framework will be adopted next.   Swapping one out for the other is I've converted Vue project to React, and it took lot of work, due to the paradigm shift..   He is the developer of Requests, the developer of the  REST API project, and the of  SimplePiealso used in core...   I am indeed the developer of Requests, and one of the focus leads of REST API, and I'm not the developer of SimplePie anymore.   it would open it up to audience of contributors and would take some responsibility for its survival out of the hands of the maintainer, Ryan...   The issue here is that HTTP of WordPress has very few people who work on it the maintenance of Requests is less important..   Human Made has lot invested in REST API, and perhaps some of that could be redirected to add support to the other projects that Ryan works on.   I spend two days week working on WordPress and REST API, and the other three days working on HM work and related projects..   One of the reasons REST API was such great project was because she was the one doing the real work of maintaining source project.   Ahmad Awais is Full Stack Web Developer, WP REST API, Customizer, & Editor components as WordPress Engineer..   Read more