No, Emre gets to do what they like.
The fundamental problem here is people and companies have got used to the idea they can get huge amounts of software for free, and expect it to be high quality and well maintained.
The fundamental problem here is people and companies have got used to the idea they can get huge amounts of software for free, and expect it to be high quality and well maintained.
Personally, I wish programming was treated as "proper engineering", in the same way as bridge building -- there are standards, and you get in serious trouble if you build a bridge, it falls down, and it was clearly your fault.
Of course, people should still be allowed to "build a bridge in their backyard", they just have to put clear warning signs on it, and if a company uses an "illegal bridge", it's their fault when it falls down.
We might still get there, we are still in the early days, similar to when there were no building standards and they fell down / burnt down regularly. After there were enough major disasters, people started demanding better.
Qualitative systems like programming languages have an immeasurable amount of variation and complexity and are extremely difficult to monitor and enforce standards around.
What’s required is a better stack that is less error prone. If programmers can’t make the mistakes in the first place, they won’t happen.
Also, new building materials are created all the time, tested, then allowed if they meet fixed safety standards.
I'm missing WordPress responsability here. The amount of crap listed in the plugin store without any standar needs to be stopped.
It is your responsibility to verify your supply chain. If you can't do that, maybe you shouldn't operate a website that collects user information.
At least before cloud you would have to set up bare metal services which gave people an idea of what they were actually assembling. The fancy control panels and one click installs have created a group of overly entitled administrators who can't admin and won't take any responsibility for running shit, misconfigured, off the shelf services from companies they didn't even vet.
One should expect at least a red flag, but as always they just care about numbers.
You claim that WordPress has a responsibility to vet the submissions on their plugin repo in the same way that Apple vets apps on the app store.
I think this level of abstraction has made web operators lazy. I think WordPress.org has a responsibility to host everybody's code and that it is your responsibility as a website operator to vet that code before you let your server run it. Just because you pay for Github or financially contribute to an app on Github doesn't shield you from bad code that another Github user has submitted.
Nevermind WordPress and all of the plugins they host are GPLv2, which means.....(verbatim) "BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW."
I'd say that can pay for a proper developer or a security audit every once in a while.