[wp-hackers] compression and caching

[William Canino]

> My biggest cause here was to be forward thinking, to promote optimization to
> the core so that everyone benefits. ...
> is settled, I don't think my contributing to it will help this cause
> anymore. However, I really hope this talk doesn't die simply as plugin
> dismissed. Thanks for listening.

Micah, I second what Mike said:

> Instead what is needed is to look at the problem and determine if there are fundamental
> aspects of the need that can and should be put into core so that other plugins can build
> upon them.

One example of this is comment metadata.  Before 2.9, dozens of
plugins, for things like  antispam, social networking, etc., coded
their own thing to provide extra fields to comments.  The overlap is
mind-blowing.  In 2.9, we move forward a bit. I think you can still
contribute by identifying the fundamental services that all C&C
plugins use.  Crusading those has bigger benefit.

W


2009/12/29 Micah <wp at twolanedesign.com>:
> Yikes, I never meant to PO anyone by bringing up this discussion. I only
> started this talk out of my concern for Wordpress and while I am totally
> willing to accept certain things shouldn't be and it should never be up to
> one person for a community to make a change. I believe in community support
> and I clearly hear the opposition so I will not add to this debate as I know
> Jacob and Otto are sick of me already.
>
> My biggest cause here was to be forward thinking, to promote optimization to
> the core so that everyone benefits. I appreciate the feedback and apologize
> if I came across as an ignorant brick wall. While I don't agree this debate
> is settled, I don't think my contributing to it will help this cause
> anymore. However, I really hope this talk doesn't die simply as plugin
> dismissed. Thanks for listening.
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