[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52012: Bundle jQuery plugin temporarily to encourage adoption of auto-updates

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#52012: Bundle jQuery plugin temporarily to encourage adoption of auto-updates
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 Reporter:  carike              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  External Libraries  |     Version:  5.5
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by Clorith):

 I'm just going to jump in here, as I am not a fan of this idea. I don't
 think core should be bundling any plugins (Hello Dolly and Akismet are
 notable exceptions, the first is meant as an example of WordPress'
 flexibility through plugins, and Akismet is a whole other topic).

 Core should only be shipping, as per its mantra, things that the majority
 of users need, and 80% of WP users do not need, as in the example here, a
 plugin to fix jQuery issues. If there are major breaking changes going
 forward (this wasn't truly a breaking change, this was plugin and them
 authors becoming blind to their own issues because they didn't truly
 understand that jQuery Migrate was running), sure it looks like WP broke
 them, but we can educate, which we are doing.

 I also do not agree with the assessment that 5.5 and 5.6 have had an
 increase in broken sites, there's been a very normal amount of "broken"
 sites, with the most usual symptoms of incomplete updates, and local
 browser caches for both these releases, 5.5 had an oopsie with some
 localize script strings, but that wasn't a major widespread issue and was
 quickly addressed as well.

 What may be worth discussing, is if there's a place for the `tools.php`
 page, which really has no real content per now, to have a curated list of
 plugins meant for troubleshooting, they would not be bundled, it would be
 much like the importer screen is today, a quick and easy way to install
 one of multiple plugins with a sole purpose. But I think we can safely
 move away from the "bundle plugins" topic here.

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