In reply to Hugh Lashbrooke.

Hugh, I understand where you come from, but perhaps where we poor users and end product producers are isn't a good place to be.

If we go to the wordpress support forums to raise issues, we generally get trashed. The "support" people there are generally not at all involved in core. It takes a while to figure out that while they speak with great authority, they in fact have none. That by itself is insanely frustrating.

Opening a TRAC for issues isn't much more useful. There are outstanding TRAC requests that go back years, and have never been fully addressed or resolved. Generally it seems that the hope is that if they are ignored long enough, a moderator type can come along and close the TRAC out as no longer relevant or to point it to another, vaguely related TRAC to make it go away. That too is insanely frustrating.

As KTS915 point out, it seems that almost all of the channels open to non-developers limit us to trying to close the barn door after the horse gets out. Most of what comes out is attempts to mitigate decisions made and released which end up impacting our sites, our client sites, or our business. It's almost impossible to get ahead of the curve unless you are a decent enough programmer to create complex plugins to change functions of wordpress itself.

I am not yet seeing a way that I can get my two cents in.