[wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

[mrmist]

In message <4C32AEE0.5070803 at mullenweg.com>, Matt Mullenweg 
<m at mullenweg.com> writes
>
>As I said before, you are in /complete control/ of your site. It's a 
>single line to remove a filter. If you don't like the filter, vote with 
>your feet or with a plugin. If the function cause a non-trivial number 
>of people to avoid 3.0, leave WP, or install a plugin to deactivate I 
>would seriously reconsider it. In the absence of that, there are a 
>1,001 better places to focus my attention with regards to WordPress.

An interesting perspective, though I think that your attention should 
probably be focused on things like this.  You have a strong community 
backlash against this, and, as another has said before fairly 
eloquently, the attitude of the core team is coming across as being "you 
don't like it, you lump it". It smacks of arrogance, which is never a 
pleasant thing.  I don't recall a ticket in my recent memory which has 
had so many -1s and revert comments, and yet still lives on.  That it's 
recently been demoted in priority is another smack in the teeth for 
those that have expressed their opinion against it.

>
>If someone made a better version of the function and benchmarked it 
>next to the current or some of our other formatting functions in some 
>real-world situations, that would be useful too, and add to the 
>discussion rather than the noise. I'd love to see wp-hackers return to 
>more, well, hacking.
>

Agreed, but as has already been stated in the ticket a better version of 
the filter - IE one that discriminates against all the possible issues 
whilst correcting your desired mis-spellings - is almost certain to use 
more resource than the current one, which just doesn't care.

I'm loath to be involved in a debate around what is or is not proper, my 
feeling on this is simply that it's caused users to experience issues 
with their sites, which they've posted about on the forums.  Many of 
these users have no clue how to remove a filter, and, quite rightly, 
would not expect to have to install a plugin to do so after the 3.0 
upgrade, without any warning.

Whilst it may be the case that the filter has existed on .com, that does 
not preclude any issues and, indeed, most of the issues that have come 
about are down to where the Wordpress/ [sic] directory has been placed, 
or what URLs people use to access their content, something which .com 
does not have to deal with.

I think that it's the arbritary nature of this filter's implementation 
and the subsequent refusal to revert that has people's backs up, and 
both that *and* the actual technical issues could largely have been 
avoided with some pre-discussion and, perhaps, a note of warning to 
upgraders who might find themselves affected.

That's my 2p worth, and all I shall say on the matter.

-- 
mrmist