Just a few words to share in a good mood: If WordPress 2.9 comes out within the next weeks, do not feel that you actually need to upgrade. My assumption is that you have to wait at least for more Bugfix releases then (as it becomes more and more normal with WordPress). Currently there are tons of bugs within the base code and instead of fixing even when patches are available, WordPress development is only facing for getting the next release out by shifting bugs from one release number to the next.
Looks like they are pretty trapped in their own release-plan without having a clue why the codebase clutters up more and more. I wonder a bit because with every PHP developer I talk about the WordPress codebase they would never agree that this “code is poetry” as the project’s homepage suggest. Literally spoken they just puke instead of opening their ears and brains to get a lyric impression. But anyway that sentence is just plain wrong in any case. Code never is poetry. That’s just a misleading image.
