[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12130: Add Donate URI plugin header

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#12130: Add Donate URI plugin header
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 Reporter:  Otto42       |       Owner:  westi                       
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted                    
 Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  3.0                         
Component:  Plugins      |     Version:                              
 Severity:  trivial      |    Keywords:  has-patch, reporter-feedback
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Changes (by westi):

  * keywords:  has-patch => has-patch, reporter-feedback


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:8 Otto42]:
 > Replying to [comment:7 westi]:
 > > Please don't add this as a plugin header
 > >
 > > we should just read it from the readme.txt and merge the data
 using the file parsing code we have in trunk for the header lines
 > >
 > > that way all existing plugins benifit from this and people don't
 have to specify in two places
 >
 > No, this needs to be separate, because not all users want those two
 different spaces to contain the same link.
 >
 > Furthermore, some people may not want that link to appear on the
 Plugins Management page, but do want the link to appear in the Extend
 section (I myself fall into this category with a few of my plugins).
 Therefore it must be separate.

 Can you explain the __why__ of this in more detail.

 Adding an extra header means all the plugin authors with an existing
 donate link which appears in extend have to do something extra (including
 releasing a new version of there plugin) just to take advantage of having
 it displayed.

 I would rather we brought the behaviour of Extend and the plugin page
 closer together and moved closer to using the same data for both of them.

 What are the reasons why you don't want the same behaviour for both?

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