I'd be happy to see BB7 go away. It seems like 3.0 could drop support, especially if BlackBerry is concentrating on 10 and not releasing webworks updates.
I have a client asking for support BB7 along with Android and iOS. This probably means that I have a cordova-cli project and a separate BB7 build and keep BB7 on PhoneGap 2.x. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Bryan Higgins <bhigg...@blackberry.com>wrote: > It is fair to say that our team is focused solely on BB10. The WebWorks SDK > for BBOS itself has no future planned releases. > > One point I should clear up is the new blackberry10 platform code we're > introducing does not cover PlayBook as well. The PlayBook runs TabletOS, > which while built on qnx does not as of yet have binary compatibility with > BB10. Our CEO has said BB10 for PlayBook is in development, but there have > been no official announcements regarding a release. > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Lorin Beer <lorin.beer....@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > 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 > > >
