[wp-testers] 2.9-beta-1 is available

[Chris Jean]

I think most of the contradictions that Gene has pointed out have simply 
been poor or misunderstood semantics. I believe when scribu said 
automated, he simply meant that all plugins on Extend will now 
automatically have the ability for end users to share compatibility 
results without relying on a Codex page, not that all plugins have their 
compatibilities automatically generated. A poor word choice maybe, but 
it is what it is. We don't need to continue going on and on about it.

The fact is that the people that decide things for WP.org decided that 
the compatibility reporting tool on the plugin page itself is preferable 
to the compatibility page centralized on the Codex. On that, I, and I 
believe many others, are in agreement that it is a step forward. I 
wouldn't be surprised if a very large percentage of plugin devs never 
knew of the existence of those pages, but it's hard to miss something 
that is on your plugin's page.

I believe that the participation in compatibility reporting is still 
going to be low, but I don't think it will be any worse than the low 
level of compatibility reporting that occurred on the Codex.

Now... Can we please move on beyond this topic?

Chris Jean
http://gaarai.com/
@chrisjean



Gene Steinberg wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Honey Singh wrote:
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>> Guys i think Gene is under confusions:
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> I'm just summarizing what was said over the past hour. If accurate summaries indicate confusion, it's confusion on the part of different people making contradictory statements.
>
> Peace,
> Gene
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