Don's question regarding a BB7 roadmap yesterday made me realize that we don't have one. Concentrating on BB10/Playbook has caused us ignore BB7.
A little while ago, BB7 was discussed in terms of sending her off to the farm/attic/(silicon afterlife). The decision was reached that we should keep up support. I believe BlackBerry's stance is that they are not interested in maintaining the BB7 Cordova implementation. Ken, Bryan, jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong. There is a lot of work involved in getting BB7 to the 3.0.0 cli stage, and if the plan is to drop support for the platform entirely within the next 6 months, I don't see that this work is justified. Deprecation policy is 3 releases now, which means 3.1.0 is the soonest we can drop it. Given that : - Brett on PhoneGap build has described the BB7 usage statistic as "noise" - no new jira tickets are submitted for BB7 unless it's by our team I propose that we : 1. keep BB7 pre-cli maintenance mode regardless of how many releases it sticks around for 2. announce BB7 deprecation and drop BB7 before the 3.0.0 release The reasoning for 2 is to not pollute the 3.0 release with legacy code which is not CLI compliant. I realize that this contravenes our deprecation policy, but I think the level of interest in BB7 may let us get away with it. - Lorin
