[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27440: Improvements to Plugin Installer modals

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#27440: Improvements to Plugin Installer modals
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 Reporter:  paulwilde       |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Plugins         |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by stephdau):

 So, the only issue I have with a mov to backbone is timeframe for 4.0.

 At this time, with beta next week, I'm not sure if it's reasonable to make
 the move to it now, since it's essentially a rewrite. That might even be
 better as a feature-as-a-plugin, like the THX38 (themes) and Media Grid
 projects.

 I think our best bet at this time, for 4.0 specifically, is to stretch the
 current framework (Thickbox and iframed page) a tad longer as we validate
 our theory that having a more complete plugins details page is valuable to
 users in the first place. We can converse and iterate rapidly, as we're
 doing now, make sure it makes 4.0, get feedback on the additional data
 we'll be presenting (banner, reviews, etc), then aggregate that and move
 to something like backbone.

 This is, of course, taking in consideration my own backbone experience,
 which is not-so-bad, but also not-optimum at the moment. Having someone
 more agile with it for the next week could change my mind on the tech
 front, but I still think we'd have more testing overhead than sticking
 with what we have, and improving it, for now.

 Wadya think?

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