On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:23 AM, R Kent James <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/15/2017 3:51 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > >> after Firefox 57 when >> Webextensions are the only extensions, if our product no longer needs some >> functionality (and it's "API"), let's remove it. Quickly and ruthlessly. >> We >> need to actively work to maintain less code. >> > > I'm struggling to have a big picture overview of what is going to be > removed. Let me state what I think the issue is, and see if I understand > correctly. > > Certain APIs remain in the platform only because they were used by XUL > addons. Once XUL addons are disabled in Firefox, those will be removed. > > The core XUL overlay feature however is used extensively throughout the > platform, and is not going to be removed as a result of disabling XUL > extensions (though it might be removed in the future as a part of > eliminating XUL from the platform). Examples are the overlay features in > XULDocument.cpp > > Is that reasonable correct? > This sounds about right. In practice, I think the goal is that a green run on treeherder should be the primary criterion of what is landable, rather than a bunch of downstream consumers whose breakage is only discovered when we release. > > :rkent > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
