[wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

[Chip Bennett]

Oh, silly me!

There already *is* such a plugin. It's been in the repository for almost three 
years:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozhs-correctly-spell-wordpress/

It has a grand total of (wait for it...)

*334 downloads*

So, Matt, tell us again: just how vital and popular is this core change?

-- 
Chip Bennett
chip at chipbennett.net
www.chipbennett.net

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 1:34:09 pm Gavin Pearce wrote:
> +1 :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Chip
> Bennett
> Sent: 06 July 2010 19:29
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress
> 
> How about moving the entire function itself into a plugin, and see how
> many
> downloads *it* gets?
> 
> > On 7/6/2010 10:33 AM, Harry Metcalfe wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Maybe write and promote a plugin, and we can see how many downloads it
> > gets?
> 
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