In reply to Luis Rock.

If you know the plugin works, and what is keeping you from 'updating' is the system, then I totally agree, it's a system problem. As users, we don't see that aspect of it... so if that's the case, maybe we need a developer uprising to get a better system put in place. :) (At the same time, there are a lot of plugins where the dev hasn't stopped by the support area for years too.)

Maybe someone can help me here, as I'm a bit new to the politics of WordPress. Everyone goes on and on about it being open source and community driven... volunteer effort, etc. This or that can't happen because there isn't enough interest behind it... or xyz isn't happening there isn't enough leadership and direction.

But, certainly Automattic has some money, right? If there are hurdles in the way, damaging the efforts of all this volunteer work, it would seem they are shooting themselves in the foot not to fix it. Fixing stuff like that and providing the vision and leadership shouldn't be part of the volunteer effort, IMO. (At least I've never seen volunteer effort succeed without it.)