On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 6:04 PM R. Tyler Croy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The key aspect of it is _not_ the selection of
> plugins, but rather how those plugins get out there to users.

That just means you are concealing one aspect behind another, since
the only plugins which would be distributed using the “evergreen”
mechanism are those we consider, well, “essential” enough to track.
Everything else comes from the update center (or is blocked outright).

While I certainly agree that having two names was confusing, I think
the selection of plugins is a critical concern that should not be
brushed aside as a detail. I recall KK discussing the notion of an
Essentials team broadly trusted to work on (review, merge) anything in
the transitive dependency closure of essential plugins (including core
and component libraries), to reduce the friction of deploying coherent
features via Evergreen, including tracking metrics, managing feature
flags, and so on.

That is of course a big effort and a major change to developer
workflow, but it is also much more of what users care about than the
fact that they no longer need to spend time on the *Updates* screen.
It is about defining and delivering a coherent product.

Perhaps you just mean to disclaim responsibility for that effort, and
someone else TBA is going to step in? Or are we really dropping the
overall goals that were proposed for Essentials initially?

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