Wpwatercooler - Weekly Wordpress

Today's topic is WordPress 3.7, auto updates and quick iterations. 3.7 released in October and 3.8 will be released in December. Is that a good/reasonable release schedule? It’s possible that this kind of release schedule will create more diligence as far as custom theme developers in keeping the standards and prevent “hacked” versions of themes. A rapid release cycle is a discussion about how they’re going about building WP so instead of everyone contributing to 1 branch of the code that will hopefully get rolled in and become the new version, they’ve decided to approach it via plugins. They rapid release approach is an approach that changes the model for how they construct software and how they collaborate to build software. Auto updates: it’s less about HOW things get built, it’s much more about how things stay updated for customers. Right now the auto updates are really related to security updates, small patches. The “dot” releases ( ex .1 and .2 versions) are security releases and not functionality chang