[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37699: Death to Globals Episode #1: A Registry, A Pattern

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#37699: Death to Globals Episode #1: A Registry, A Pattern
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 Reporter:  wonderboymusic  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by helen):

 * milestone:  4.7 => Awaiting Review


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:96 pento]:
 > A side note to [38768] - I'm cool with removing globals, but the idea
 needs to be explored further before it's ready for Core.

 For once, I am forced to agree with @pento. Before this ticket and related
 discussion get too far into speculation and hand-wringing, I want to be
 clear that it is absolutely readiness and maintainership that are the real
 issues at hand. This isn't at a point where its relationship to
 WordPress's goals or future can be evaluated in any sort of meaningful
 way. Much like another similarly fated ticket (and to be clear, this
 should have been reverted at the same time), there is no indication that
 any proposals were distributed or discussed, concerns from a wide variety
 of parties addressed (including on this ticket!), or that there would be
 continuous maintainership of such an effort. I'm sure that the cited
 concerns in the revert could have been addressed specifically, but that is
 not an indicator of active ownership - if anything, it's a sign there
 isn't any.

 Contributions from many are highly encouraged, and by no means is every
 single commenter here expected to stick around and own this, but there
 needs to be at least one committer AND one other contributing developer
 (if not a wider working group) who show signs of really owning this kind
 of a project and process. Neither of those are true here. There are a few
 of you who have clearly spent significant time reviewing and following
 this, and there are many more who roll by every once in a while - both are
 perfectly legitimate and one is not better than the other, but it is not
 enough to call this a concerted effort.

 I don't know what exactly the best process is for this kind of enormous
 developer-facing effort. Perhaps it's GitHub and treating this as a
 distinct feature project (which it essentially is), but no matter what,
 '''it needs an active owner'''. Open to thoughts around this as well.

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