[wp-hackers] Bundled Plug-ins

[Mike Schinkel]

On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Rich Pedley wrote:
> I'd like to keep the notifications for the deactivated ones as well. there could be any number of reasons why a plugin is deactivated, including not working with the current version. So a user may be waiting for that plugin to be activated.
> 
> therefore a hook to enable the hiding of the notifications for deactivated plugins would be better IMO.
> 
> But please leave it on by default.

Fair point.  So a better solution for both (which I implied in my email) is to add an "archived" status.  (I wrote a plugin for this albeit it's a hack (because of lack of needed hooks) and wouldn't be a good starting point.)

-Mike