In reply to Otto.

I know that people are busy and cranking away on WordPress core or contributing to the project in other ways, but it would be cool to see more individuals close to the project write more on their site which is inside of the WordPress Planet feed. At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those people don't want to deal with drama, are afraid to post something, or simply don't want to be bothered to do so.

I enjoyed reading those posts a few years ago when Mark Jaquith and others would occasionally write about WordPress with intimate knowledge of the project and what's going on. I suppose in a way, the various Make blogs have taken the place of individual developer blogs.