Automattic changed the “Five for the Future” pledge yesterday

Until yesterday the "Five for the Future" project listed "5% of resources" as a hardcoded pledge to the WordPress organisation.

https://github.com/WordPress/five-for-the-future/commit/19b3897514b29bce669c805709bd2e7e3755ad6a

I thought it was worth noting that they changed this yesterday, since the amount Matt/Automattic want from WP Engine is 8%, the timing of this change alone I feel is remarkable.

4 Comments
  1. Yea, like suddenly we forgot what the fuck the “five” in “five for the future” meant. What a dunce.

    It was also probably realized that 5% meant they’d actually have to contribute more resources due to growth from when that original pledge was made.

  2. It wasn’t yesterday. The commit is dated Sep 18, 2024 at 12:27 PM GMT+8, and thanks to the Wayback Machine, we can see that the change was deployed sometime between 03:52:56 UTC on the 18th of September and 00:02:20 UTC on the 20th of September.

    – [18th](https://web.archive.org/web/20240918035256/https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/wp-engine/)
    – [20th](https://web.archive.org/web/20240920000220/https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/wp-engine/)

 

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