WordPress 4.9: Consider "Try Gutenberg" dashboard notice

[jasmussen]

This is more of a meta ticket. It's been suggested that Gutenberg could reach WordPress in version 5.0. What form exactly this would take (opt-out?) has yet to be discussed. But even prior to that, reaching WordPress hinges upon the plugin getting a huge amount of installs; 100.000 has been suggested.

Should we explore putting a dismissable dashboard notice in WordPress 4.9, that says "Try a preview of the new WordPress editor", which when clicked would allow you to install the plugin?

[buzztone]

While we probably can't say at this stage if 100,000 active installs is realistically achievable, it's certainly a worthwhile target in my opinion. While 10,000 - 20,000 (currently 1000+) might be sufficient to get widespread usage & feedback, 100,000 active installs would demonstrate support within the community for the advantages Gutenberg offers.

For comparison I'd be interested to see how many downloads MP6 had before it was merged. MP6 certainly had a significant number of users & a very extensive review process. I believe this contributed significantly to acceptance of the MP6 changes when merged. As I recall I was using the MP6 plugin on many sites, before it merged, for the advantages it offered.

Shiny Updates was another feature plugin that I was already using on most sites before it merged. This gave me direct first hand confirmation that Shiny Updates worked as I waited patiently for the merge into core.

[hedgefield]

I'd be all for it. We were otherwise planning to write a little plugin that sets Gutenberg as default so our content team can get used to it and provide feedback.

[melchoyce]

Should we explore putting a dismissable dashboard notice in WordPress 4.9, that says "Try a preview of the new WordPress editor", which when clicked would allow you to install the plugin?

I think we could even get this into the next point release.

[jasmussen]

This is done! Hooray!