[wp-hackers] Simplicity in 2.next

[Evan Broder]

If there's going to be some sort of gardening system, at least make 
it...well, I don't know if I'd make it opt-in or opt-out, but one of the 
two. Or maybe disabled if the plugin has been updated within a certain 
range of time. I personally don't want other people screwing with my 
plugin if and while I'm developing it.

Yes. I'm a control freak. Deal with it :)

- Evan

Ryan Boren wrote:
> Owen Winkler wrote:
>> Ryan Boren wrote:
>>
>>> If a plugin in wp-plugins needs to be updated to work with a new 
>>> release, the crack team of plugin gardeners can fix it and commit 
>>> the change.  I can't fix a plugin that lives in a repository to 
>>> which I do not have committ access.  That's the main advantage from 
>>> my point of view.
>>
>>
>> It's not an invalid advantage by any stretch.  And yet, in an 
>> environment with two primary committers with deific control over the 
>> core repo, you can see how I would feel oddly about this.
>
> Hey, almost all of your patches go straight in. :-)
>
>> I mean, I can't set permissions on my own repo for developers I trust 
>> with my vision, but any old gardener can come along and modify my 
>> code as they see fit?
>
> Would be nice to have better access control.
>
> Bug gardeners would have to limit their changes to the scope of fixing 
> incompatibility problems.  Troublesome gardeners would have access 
> revoked.
>
>> I know I'm not the only one that sees something weird going on here.
>
> For you, any advantage probably isn't worthwile.  You actually 
> maintain your plugins.  Most plugins are unmaintained, however.  Most 
> plugin authors do not follow the hackers list, and they wait until 
> after a release to update their plugins.  That's too late.  I'm trying 
> to figure a way to improve the end user experience.  Every time we try 
> to address this, we all get into this same argument and nothing is 
> ever done.
>
> Ryan
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