In reply to Matt.

I think the takeaway from today is to decide what it is the dev community wants out of WP, and see if feature plugins are the way to go, or if there is some validity in building out this system (whatever it may be called) as what we hope can be re-integrated into core at some point. Whether that means taking backwards compatibility into account or not that has yet to be seen. The discussion will continue next week, same day, 1 hour later :) And we learned our G Hangout lesson.