I'm tempted to think this does fit with "make merge great". Not so much because a custom merger for NEWS is great (although it is nice), but because building the infrastructure to make it easy for people to build good (configurable, powerful, reasonably efficient, etc) custom mergers would be great.
I'm tempted to think this does fit with "make merge great". Not so much because a custom merger for NEWS is great (although it is nice), but because building the infrastructure to make it easy for people to build good (configurable, powerful, reasonably efficient, etc) custom mergers would be great.