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The submitted title was "WordPress Proposal to Treat Google's FLoC as a Security Concern". That makes it sound like Wordpress itself is officially making this proposal. Is it? The page doesn't look like that to me.

We've reverted the title in keeping with the site rule: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

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I’m a WordPress committer and (somewhat former) owner of some large parts of WordPress. This is correct; the Make blogs can be posted to by many members of the project, and this does not indicate a decision or “official” word by any means. (I could create a Make post right now with a counter-proposal if I wanted.) It’s not a proposal by the WordPress Foundation, nor by any of the project’s leads.

However, this does have more gravitas than a random blog post elsewhere, as those with the ability to publish are contributors to the project who have made significant contributions.

Take this post as if it’s an emailed proposal to a project’s mailing list.

Thanks! In that case, the article's original title, appearing next to the domain make.wordpress.com, seems right.

The page does seem to be the official wordpress development blog, linked from wordpress.org's "get involved" page.

"The WordPress core development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate."

This is make.wordpress.org kinda like a issue tracker for WordPress core

It’s closer to a mailing list than an issue tracker; Trac (https://core.trac.wordpress.org) is the issue tracker.

> That makes it sound like Wordpress itself is officially making this proposal. Is it?

Seems like it is to me.

It looks like it to some and not to others, which is already confusing if it's an official proposal.

Clicking on the author's user profile [1] says they're a "Core Contributor". So maybe not the Wordpress org itself making the proposal but a core team member.

[1] https://profiles.wordpress.org/carike/

“Core Contributor” indicates they have contributed patches to WordPress previously and received acknowledgement (props) in the commit message, or have otherwise contributed to the Core component (i.e. the codebase, as opposed to Support/etc). It doesn’t indicate commit access or project leadership necessarily.

That said, only significant contributors get access to post to Make.

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