"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

One of my deepest concerns with this Project is we're doing exactly the above right now, yet again.

From what I know and have seen myself, we have yet to perform a true reflection of the Plugin / Widget marketspace in order to identify potential issues we'll face with Blocks and its eventual marketspace.

As Nick observes, waiting until August to launch this is an unrealistic and unambitious goal to set when we simultaneously promote a world of MVPs and continuous deployment via the power of WordPress.

I believe we have tried to do usability testing for Gutenberg at a major WordCamp if I remember correctly; I have yet to see a concrete analysis of the resulting information, nor further information about what happened with these tests beyond the day of testing. At this point in time, we may want to retrospect to see if we were asking the correct questions in order to help improve not just the end product, but our OWN process.

What I have seen, however, is Accessibility, Diversity, and Ethics concerns continually dismissed - or worse, further alienation at WordCamps of those who champion these rights. I've personally seen a strong person in power outright dismiss questions voiced by a different sex, then do it again, and again. This attitude makes me not want to even press Submit on these very words.

Without full transparency of communications and efforts, our volunteer workforce will dry up quickly. We cannot wait for August to do what we know is right. It does begin at the Source. Let's not make the same mistakes this time.