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My thoughts exactly.

"Oh cool, maybe some digital natives are going to beable to bring development practices in government into the 2010's. That would be a cool thing to be a part of! ...Wordpress?"

/closetab

I was tempted to think the same thing, but I'd assume his work with the government will not actually involve coding.

It will involve driving adoption of web technology, which WordPress has done incredibly well.

I'd also say that WordPress has/had a rotten core of code, and it's now 11 years old. This guy has only been working on it for 5. If you inherit a code base like that and make huge strides forward, people will still judge you without seeing how much you've cleaned it up. So unless you look at the code base before and after him, you can't judge his engineering skills.

Well said, thank you.

A big chunk of the govt has been moving everything to Drupal for the last 5 years.

On the bright side, it's probably a lateral move as far as government application security goes. And if they're migrating from, e.g. DotNetNuke, probably a net gain.