As appealing as it is to think that if we just have more rigorous processes and infrastructure a crappy system will become more stable, it misses the point I was making.
We do have our sites on functional WP stacks. With enough caching, it's not super hard to make things work (until you hit some edge case with a custom theme/plugin that didn't anticipate a supposedly non-breaking change in the core).
Unfortunately, figuring out why the calendar plugin suddenly isn't producing a functional ical output for windows PCs or figuring out why the s3 offloading plugin has started timing out intermittently becomes a large time investment.
So it's kind of fun to suggest that the people who have the pleasure of servicing WP at a high level are just holding it wrong, but the reality is that there are a lot of talented and experienced people out here working on a platform that fundamentally sucks to work on.
It's not logically inconsistent that, on one hand, people chose it because it's an easy-to-implement solution whose benefit massively outweighs its TCO and, on the other hand, when it break or requires extension it's a pain in the ass for those of us charged with doing that work.
We do have our sites on functional WP stacks. With enough caching, it's not super hard to make things work (until you hit some edge case with a custom theme/plugin that didn't anticipate a supposedly non-breaking change in the core).
Unfortunately, figuring out why the calendar plugin suddenly isn't producing a functional ical output for windows PCs or figuring out why the s3 offloading plugin has started timing out intermittently becomes a large time investment.
So it's kind of fun to suggest that the people who have the pleasure of servicing WP at a high level are just holding it wrong, but the reality is that there are a lot of talented and experienced people out here working on a platform that fundamentally sucks to work on.
It's not logically inconsistent that, on one hand, people chose it because it's an easy-to-implement solution whose benefit massively outweighs its TCO and, on the other hand, when it break or requires extension it's a pain in the ass for those of us charged with doing that work.