Since this has gone through the 48 month cooling off period (stole that line from Jesse who brought this up when cleaning the Wiki), I think by consensus, as originally proposed by Joe, the deprecation period is now 3 releases instead of 6 months. Finally, we can put this issue behind us!
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> wrote: > To Tommy-Carlos' point, I believe plugins (or the plugin interface) will > unlikely break when we get closer to 3.0. Reason is: if the plugin > interface breaks then everything will break :-D We certainly don't want > that. > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Ken Wallis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We will definitely care as well as we move directly on top of Cordova. > > Cordova is being adopted more and more as a platform that others will > > build on. A certain level of predictability and stability in a platform > is > > certainly appreciated at least. ;) > > > > We will be heavily invested in the plug-in approach here at BlackBerry so > > that is of special concern if it is unstable. > > > > > > -- > > > > Ken Wallis > > > > Product Manager – WebWorks > > > > BlackBerry > > > > 289-261-4369 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Marcel Kinard [[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:24 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Decreasing the Deprecation Time > > > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Michael Brooks <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > +1 for switching the deprecation window from time to release. Michal > > summed > > > it up perfectly. > > > > Agreed. > > > > > > > > It's worth reflecting on Tommy and Simon's input. The deprecation > window > > is > > > there to give users adequate warning that breakage is impending. > However, > > > it's just make-work for us, if our user's don't care or take action. > > > > I care. Or in other words, the users of my product (which embeds Cordova) > > care. I get yelled at by my users when their app breaks when doing an > > in-place upgrade from version n-3 to n of Cordova. > > > > -- Marcel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential > > information, privileged material (including material protected by the > > solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute > non-public > > information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the > intended > > recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, > > please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from > > your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > > transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be > unlawful. > > >
