[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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Comment(by Otto42):

 Chip, I have 60+ plugins on my site. That's 60+ extra files you want the
 thing to read in and parse. At a max of 8k each, that's 480k that it now
 has to go through.

 I don't think the overhead of reading an extra file for every plugin is
 worth it just to eliminate the need for plugin authors to add one single
 little line.

 Lots of people use lots of plugins, and adding all sorts of extra overhead
 for something as silly as one line in the plugin header doesn't make any
 sense to me.

 Plugin authors are not idiots, and they can add a line to their own
 plugins to give a donate link if they want to do so. You don't have to
 treat them as if they are children.

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