Developers don’t like to work for free, nobody wants to work for free, but money is not the only way to pay someone. The currency may be popularity, marketing, or whatever appeals to the developers, including money.
What can CP offer to developers and big companies? Are you sure it has nothing to offer? In a so kind of situation where a lot of people hate Gutenberg since it appeared for the first time, do you think CP has nothing to offer? Do you really think big companies behind page builders are not interested in investing in CP? What happens when Gutenberg will replace the page builders? Will big companies behind page builders passively watch the end of their business? Don’t you think they might be interested in having an alternative like CP?
For me, it is absurd to see all this wasted potential. We’re talking about the alternative to Gutenberg that is hated by at least half of WP users, and you tell me there aren’t the resources? The resources are there, but they are not gathered. Maybe we should go out from the fantastic world of democracy and ask the collaboration from big companies. Prepare a contract to ensure a minimum of democracy and avoid the tyranny of those companies, but then start working with them. I don’t see many other ways.
Many people want something like CP, but if all these forces are not collected and led by someone, they will never work efficiently.
And I would not start with a dream. Having something that works like WP now is a dream. The first little step for me should be a real fork, having a CMS for very simple websites, and then from there continue growing, attracting theme and plugin developers, and contributors.
At the moment, for me, but I think also for many others, it’s lost time if I contribute to something that I’m not sure about. At the moment it’s not so easy to trust this project I would prefer to see little, but effective steps. When the step is too big, you fall.
Thank you for offering me the details about how to upload my plugins. But sorry if I say that, for me this is absurd. You should share one single link, and then I should be able to upload my plugins without issues, and without PMs. You can manage it via PM if you have something that involves a couple of people, not something that claims it’s an alternative to WP.
First, the system, the structure, and then you fill the system with plugins, themes, documentation, or whatever. For me, CP at the moment hasn’t had solid foundations. This is the cause of all the problems. The scarcity of developers is a consequence of the main issue, not the root cause of the issue. Why are there a lot of developers who work free for WP and not for CP? And at the same time, it looks like more people hate Gutenberg than those who love it. Surely there is a reason, and this reason for me it’s missing leadership and the presumption of starting already grown up.