[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19239: Combine WordPress News and Other WordPress News dashboard widgets

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#19239: Combine WordPress News and Other WordPress News dashboard widgets
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 Reporter:  jane             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Administration   |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch        |
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Changes (by bpetty):

 * cc: bpetty (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:6 rmccue]:
 > +1 for making a new dashboard widget for this, rather than modifying the
 existing one. Modification could break a whole heap of plugins that use
 it.

 That's assuming the modifications were done in a backwards incompatible
 way, and the changes Drew described don't actually sound like they break
 compatibility (even if they do sound a little unorthodox).

 If the current RSS widget methods aren't currently flexible enough to
 implement this widget, it makes sense to me to refactor and expand their
 functionality so they can also be used with more 3rd party widgets using
 an approach similar to this one. What doesn't make sense is writing up a
 second set of methods that provide the same functionality that have to be
 maintained right alongside the original methods.

 Or as a last result, write a new API and implement the original methods on
 top of that API (and deprecate them).

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