[wp-hackers] Auto Update Plugins

[Alex Hempton-Smith]

>From a personal stand-point I completely agree that 'this should be added to
core' discussions should be kept out of wp-hackers. However, I'm also guilty
of using this list as a way of communicating my thoughts on core additions.
This is for a few reasons:
1) I rather the mailing list format over forums or the Ideas area
2) In my limited time in the ideas section I never saw such skilful and
thoughtful debate over feature additions and their implications as I have
experienced here.
3) Core devs seem to appear on this list far more than on Ideas or the
forums.

On the whole discussion on wp-hackers is far, far better and more thought
out that in other mediums.

I would like to propose we have a mailing list set up for those kind of
discussions. I'm sure many members of wp-hackers are happy to talk about
core additions, and it would be nice to think core devs read those threads
to see what is really wanted/needed 'straight from the horses mouth' as it
were.

And those not interested in core additions etc don't have to subscribe.
Because it would be really sad to lose the great input we get from some of
these guys who are talking about leaving.

-- Alex


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Will Anderson <wp-hackers at itsananderson.com
> wrote:

> Maybe it would help if someone changed the wp-hackers description in the
> Codex <http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists> as well.The description
> actually does seem to indicate that discussions about what should be added
> to core belong in wp-hackers.
> Maybe it just needs to be worded differently.
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How about if we ban all discussion that go like "We should add this to
> > core"?
> >
> > There is the Ideas section on WP.org for that.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Kim Parsell <kparsell-wp at kpdesign.net
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > +100. I'm also sad to see them leave this list.
> > >
> > > I subscribed to this list, in part, to learn more about WordPress than
> > what
> > > is available via the Codex. There are a lot of great people on this
> list
> > who
> > > contribute a wealth of knowledge for free that help folks like me
> without
> > > even knowing it.
> > >
> > > I'm not a major contributor here. In fact, I've very rarely
> participated
> > in
> > > a discussion, but I appreciate having the opportunity to learn from
> some
> > of
> > > best and brightest in the WordPress community.
> > >
> > > My only hope is that this list can get back (somehow) to being what it
> > was
> > > when I joined.
> > >
> > > Just my 3 cents worth...
> > >
> > > Kim
> > >
> > > ---------------------------
> > >
> > > Ozh wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've been thinking about unsubscribing a number of times over the last
> > >> couple of weeks, but I'm particularly sad that 2 of the most brilliant
> > >> and needed contributors here are eventually doing it.
> > >>
> > >> <15 mn hesitation goes here>
> > >> After all no I'm not going to point my finger at anyone that would
> > >> just start *yet another* wasteful and pointless thread.
> > >>
> > >> This really sucks.
> > >>
> > >>
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