Hasn’t Cwicly been “open source” all along? In the readme it says it is GPL version 3. When I see people talking about Cwicly “becoming” open source, I think what is meant is that the code will be shared on Github, together with build scripts, in a manner that allows for collaborative development. Is that correct, or do I understand it wrong?
Getting Cwicly on WordPress.org seems like a watershed event. It is a pretty exciting prospect. I wanted to share some thoughts about the process.
About a month ago the status of the plugin queue was shared. It looks to be a long queue.
During review, the Plugin Team could ask for information or changes, so it could take a few months to get processed. Meanwhile, I imagine that the Cwicly theme will go faster, assuming it checks all the boxes.
Over the course of many years it seems that developers have come to the conclusion that they should additionally have the versions that are on WordPress.org available on their own website. Sadly, miscommunications and delays happen when there is an issue.
I’m mentioning this because it might take an all out effort to get it published there and take longer than expected. Would there need to be a version freeze while it is pending review?