[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14746: Post Formats

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#14746: Post Formats
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 Reporter:  ryan            |       Owner:                             
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.1                        
Component:  Template        |     Version:                             
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  ongoing-project ui-feedback
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:110 nacin]:
 > Interesting idea, but I think revisiting this every 4-6 months (i.e.
 every major release) seems sensible.

 Not saying my solution is the correct approach, but I think you'll find
 4-6 months way too long for the initial follow-up.

 Once people start using Post Formats there will be a flood of ideas for
 how to use them initially as the 80 percentile use-case patterns emerge
 (almost by definition you will not have gotten all of them right no matter
 how hard you try.)  If there is no near-term way for these common use-case
 patterns to be added in a project timeframe people will get frustrated. If
 there is not some form of "relief" value people will likely do an end-run
 as @greenshady suggests which will likely torpedo the stated goal of
 interoperability.

 > Just tacking on more formats as we go whenever someone comes up with a
 use case is against the goal of having consistency and a standard across
 just one area of theme development.

 Not "when someone comes up with a use-case" but when it becomes clear
 there is an large number of people need the use-case.  I'm talking the
 ability to add 2-3 a month, not hundreds. Digg-like voting could surface
 that; I'm sure there's a plugin that could support that on a WordPress
 post somehow.

 > A constantly moving standard is impossible to hit.

 All standards that are not-moving are by nature dying, as well as those
 that were not well-vetted by the broader community in advance. Providing a
 simple process to announce the release of new formats on a monthly or bi-
 monthly timeframe could allow for crowdsourcing of the needed options.

 As always, JMTCW.

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