This post isn't intended to make promises about what will or won't make it into the product - it's intended to get some feedback from the community as to what should go in. What am I on about?

Well, there are a ton of things that reside in "Contributed" that make the product easier to use and/or more approachable - and which aren't part of the core product for various reasons (typically having to do with the way they were implemented and the need to make them "cleaner" before supporting them. To give one example, consider RBCodeHighlighting, which adds syntax highlighting to the browser. Useful, expected by new developers, and not part of the core.

So the question is: of the various add ons that ship with the product, which ones do you load whenever you build a development image? Which ones should "just be there", in your opinion? Feel free to comment, or send me an email.

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