[MTOS-dev] RSS Support

[Jay Allen]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bud Gibson <fpgibson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Let me speak to the issue of why I am not a plugin fan. Simply stated, they
> are a maintenance headache. They're out of the core and they break on
> upgrade. Byrne even noted this in a leaked email last August. I'm just now
> diving into MT4.1 for a site upgrade, installing the recaptcha plug-in, and
> thinking OMG, will this work when the MT4.1.5 upgrade surfaces?

Luckily, much of that pain should be abating and eventually disappear
now that us developers have full access to the source code after every
single change to it by the core developers.  It used to be that
developers only had a few weeks (if that) to not only learn all of the
new front-end and API features but to quickly fix their plugins.  This
was especially harmful for:

    * The most prolific plugin writers (e.g. Arvind) who had many
plugins to update,
    * "One hit wonder" developers who wrote a single plugin and then
drifted away from the community far enough to either not know or not
care that there was a new MT version out that required updates to
their plugin
    * Or the worst case, plugin developers who fit into **both**
categories by being extremely prolific in the MT 2.x and early 3.x
days before completely dropping off the face of the Earth.  I won't
name names because you probably know a few of these.

So, it's now time to realize that your old biases, though probably
well-founded, are now quite solidly out of date.  This is the
beginning of the better times we've all been waiting for for so long.

-- 
Jay Allen
Endevver Consulting
415-200-6985