I took the dive today and moved this site into WordPress 3.0 Development trunk way ahead of the feature freeze date. I been monitoring the commits, and while I haven’t done much except for the few patches I have submitted the code is very stable.

For those daring, go ahead and run the trunk. You’ll notice a speed difference with everything including the jQuery. Backup your site for when something fails or you need to revert!

One of the problems the core developers have of WordPress is the amount of testing that goes on. Since this is free/open source software, users usually do not try software that they can get free. When its paid software they fell like it’s an obligation to make sure that they are getting their’s money worth before having it officially released as the ‘offical’ version.

It doesn’t work that way for WordPress. Stephen Cronin has posted up some ideas on his website and one stands out that could work for WordPress.

Well.. I succeeded in a part in helping testing patches for the upcoming version of WordPress. Hopefully on my days off this week I will be able to write some, work on some flash, and also develop more of the new Media system. Here is also to more marathon testing before the release! Good Job team!

More to read here: WordPress › Blog » Has-Patch Marathon Results.