[wp-hackers] Ticket #15989 has had patch for 3 months, but is not in core yet?

[Otto]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/11 6:18 PM, Bjorn Wijers wrote:
>>
>> I was hoping to alter the starting point from which an image is cropped.
>> AFAIK there is no filter for this, yet a patch is available which would add
>> a filter to make this possible if I understand this ticket correctly:
>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15989
>>
>> What needs to be done to get this into 3.2? Or is there another way to
>> change the crop starting point?
>>
> It's too late for 3.2, which is past feature freeze. When scope was decided
> at the beginning of the cycle, this was not included. When we start deciding
> on scope for 3.3 it can be lobbied for then.
> j

Just wanted to note, I'm totally with Mark's comment on that ticket.
Just-in-time resizing is spiffy and fun. Think we need to lobby for
that in 3.3, include fixes for this sort of thing as part of it.

-Otto