[wp-testers] AW: Write Page

[Matt Mullenweg]

Dawnne Gee wrote:
> It's kind of like going to your favorite restaurant, ordering a New! Better!
> No Hormones! steak, and the waitress brings you a plate with some rice and
> veggies on it, and tells you the steak will be served later....on the table
> behind you.

Any good restaurant will let you send a plate back if you don't like it, 
and WordPress let's people custom any part of it they like through 
plugins free of charge, and I won't even question your taste or say you 
don't care for open source like other people on this list, everyone is 
entitled to their opinion.

Deciding what's best for core is *really* hard, and by definition if 
you're picking something that's right for 90% of the user base with 
something as large as WordPress that's still *hundreds of thousands of 
people* for whom the change is not right for.

There are no sacred cows, everything is open to discussion, but the 
amount we can change gets smaller and smaller as we near release. A few 
months ago we did push things back a few weeks to get some more testing 
on how the comments section worked after it was implemented to see if 
the theories and hypotheses were correct, as it was something that was 
counter-intuitive to myself and other devs, but after a RC2 you have to 
focus on "blockers" and leave the deeper examination for the next 
release cycle.

Fortunately, for as much testing has been one, we'll have better data to 
make a decision for 2.6, for example how many people are using the 
plugin which puts the category thing back on the side, or does the 
average number of tags or categories per post go up or down on WP.com 
after the interface is switched. (WP.com does 100,000 posts a day.) If 
it dips, is it a permanent dip, or a temporary one?

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Matt Mullenweg
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