Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, including Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi, amid ongoing tensions over WordPress governance. This followed public criticism of WP Engine and discussions on creating federated repositories, though de Valk and Marucchi denied plans to fork WordPress. Mullenweg's actions were seen as targeting those questioning WordPress's leadership, but the code remains accessible for forking via GitHub.
The WordPress saga continues!
