[wp-hackers] compression and caching

[Mike Schinkel]

On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:01 PM, William Canino wrote:
>> Instead what is needed is to look at the problem and determine if there are fundamental
>> aspects of the need that can and should be put into core so that other plugins can build
>> upon them.
> 
> One example of this is comment metadata.  Before 2.9, dozens of
> plugins, for things like  antispam, social networking, etc., coded
> their own thing to provide extra fields to comments.  The overlap is
> mind-blowing.  In 2.9, we move forward a bit. I think you can still
> contribute by identifying the fundamental services that all C&C
> plugins use.  Crusading those has bigger benefit.

Two thumbs up on that example!  Thanks W.

-Mike