[wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

[Gavin Pearce]

> Ask the question, get the answer, act on it, and problem solved.

Fully agree. In that order.

Not: act on it, ignore the problem, pretend it goes away and send
arrogant answers to people who disagree.

Which is what has become the case here.

G


-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Mitch
Canter
Sent: 06 July 2010 15:52
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

The core argument here is whether or not people would be OK with their
blogging software having the ability to edit content (even if it's
just changing the spelling) without their permission.  Why not ask the
community?  A poll, a blog post, anything could be done where you
simply ask the question:

Would you mind if WordPress put code in your software that would
autocorrect the spelling of the word WordPress?

Explain why (branding reasons, continuity) and have someone draft the
cons (principle of editing content, etc) and ask the people.
WordPress is all about the community, this list isn't a good sample of
that community (because we're all much more technically savvy than a
lot of the users).

Ask the question, get the answer, act on it, and problem solved.

~Mitch

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gavin Pearce <Gavin.Pearce at 3seven9.com>
wrote:
>> I'm really not trying to be difficult! I just think this filter is a
> terrible idea.
> +1 :)
>
> _Ryan McCue
>> If you're on this list, you should at least be able to do that.
>
> Yes I know! And various people have offered a patch to fix this bug,
but
> Matt/Core Team reckon it isn't open to discussion. That's what people
> are getting so worked up about here ...
>
> The function is broke. It needs a fix commiting to core code. Like I
> said before - end of topic as far as I'm concerned.
>
> _ mccormicky
>> Isn't that true? So how can it change filenames? Anyway why are you
> using uppercase for filenames? This is stupid!
>
> Don't know where to begin on this ....
>
> Firstly this filter does affect URI paths, it affects all/any content
> put into the "editable" content area.
>
> Secondly, with the filter, it would now look for a file called
> "filename-WordPress.jpg" - making it capitalised whereas before it
> wouldn't have been (so the filter is actually causing the capitals
when
> you just said you hated capitals).
>
> Thirdly, on a Linux box there is many good reasons why to use case in
> file-names, not least readability when you have several hundred files
in
> a folder.
>
> Finally, what bit is stupid?
>
> Gav
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Harry
> Metcalfe
> Sent: 06 July 2010 15:33
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress
>
> I wrote a patch weeks ago to take it out. I'm really not trying to be
> difficult! I just think this filter is a terrible idea. And it's a
> little sad to witness the total lack of interest from the core team.
> This isn't how it's supposed to work, IMO.
>
>
>
> On 06/07/10 15:17, Ryan McCue wrote:
>> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I'm staying out of the discussion apart for this reason. I'm not on
> this
>> list because I want to hear people bikeshedding irrelevant stuff like
>> this, I'm here because I want to participate in discussions about
>> hacking WordPress.
>>
>> Also, if the functionality is really that broken (affecting URLs,
> etc),
>> write a patch and fix it yourselves. If you're on this list, you
> should
>> at least be able to do that.
>>
>
> --
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