Anne McCarthy has been gathering feedback related to phase 3 of Gutenberg, working collaboratively. There is some good feedback here and perhaps a sense of what might come in phase 3.

There is a lot of work and dedication that goes into a WordPress release. This is a nice article that looks at the experiences of three of the 6.3 co-leads.

The duplication of the WordPress org plugin to the dot com site has generated a lot of debate.

Another story from the WordPress org trenches from Mika Epstein.

There are signs that there may be an economic downturn due to inflation, the economy in China, and other factors. Jim Galiano is a very pragmatic business consultant and in his newsletter he discusses some of the things you can do in this business climate.

In the past I’ve just used the WAVE Accessibility Extension to check sites for accessibility issues. With WordPress there is the option to check accessibility using a plugin, Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker. This article from the WPTavern tells how NASA helped fund updates to it.

Here is an interesting list of websites built using WordPress from the government, business, entertainment, and celebrity categories.

The WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and TYPO3 projects have jointly signed a letter to the legislators of the European Union raising concerns with the proposed Cyber Resilience Act. Some terms of the proposed Act are not well defined and some provisions may be too broad in their application, which might impact the contributions to open source software.

The Classic Press team is considering options for updating and maintaining compatibility with WooCommerce. It doesn’t sound like a happy situation.