In reply to Faizan.

Your article deals with the facts fairly well, except one section “Response to WP-Optimization’s Claim” which does not present the full picture or time line. At the time I was following closely as an independent too, and I had pressed Gijo three times to reveal his methodology as several of us had been unable to reproduce the issue. At that time, as he had not revelled his methodology, it was assumed by many ( and I believed WP Optimize under pressure to respond ) to be the option that had the notice that it does what is says on the tin. Only later Gijo reveal the other option also did it without the written text.

I also think your article could have also examined the process of public ‘reveal’ of a free plugin issue on Twitter and then that getting picked up by WP Tavern.

In my opinion, this is not the accepted behaviour of Open Source collaborators, as is the ethos of WP and free plugins published on WP.org. My take on the ‘right way’ is Gijo should have raised this with the plugin author, and if he felt that it was something to be aired publicly that the right public place is the plugin’s WP.org support forum.