[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16838: Excluding Akismet from Future WordPress Releases

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#16838: Excluding Akismet from Future WordPress Releases
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 Reporter:  sc0ttkclark  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins      |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Replying to [comment:25 daveshine]:
 > Replying to [comment:21 chipbennett]:
 > > Perhaps this could be added to the list to consider for 3.9?
 > + 1 for considering this for 3.9!
 > In the above discussion there are already mentioned a lot of aspects
 that go with it.
 > Still, there are more aspects tied to it, especially regarding the whole
 "privacy" topic. There are some countries (e.g. within European Union)
 that require website owners to declare all kind of stuff in privacy TOS
 pages. Akismet handling falls under that, for example in Germany.

 Akismet is hardly the only thing in WP core that flunks in this respect.
 There's also WP core updates which sends more home than is needed, plugin
 and theme updates which collect stats too. And, of course, let's not
 forget Gravatar and pingomatic. But this is a very old and bitter
 discussion -- it left open wounds awaiting to sprinkle gruesome puss all
 over the place.

 The question on hand is whether to allow a commercial entity, irrespective
 of how in bed it is with wp.org, to bundle a commercial product in WP
 core.

 The argument against (by an Automattician?) is a weasel-worded yeah, it's
 true, but hey, we need to replace it with adequate spam protection. If
 that's the only argument against, then please... it seems easy enough:
 cookies for comments, hashcash, done?

 I'll happily supply my (proper) hashcash implementation if so.

 If not, well, let's get real here: this will die out like the privacy-
 related discussions from several years back: yawn... troll...
 maybelater... beating a dead horse... yeah, horse is dead...

 Suggesting wontfix, personally. Not that I think it should be in core.
 Just that I predict it'll stay in there. Just like update stats,
 gravatars, and pingomatic before it.

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