WebExtension Experiments are a way to write WebExtension APIs without having to write an API in mozilla-central.
There are no WebExtension Experiments enabled on release. They have been enabled on release in Firefox 55 for a restricted set of users *only*. Basically, Test Pilot. When that team proposes pushing out an experiment to release, the usual release process for that team will take place. There is no need to think about interface compatibility in the future with external clients. On 14 June 2017 at 10:07, Nathan Froyd <nfr...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> On 06/14/2017 09:23 AM, Andrew Swan wrote: >>> I would hope that if we have promising or widely used webextension >>> experiments, that the relevant peers would be aware of them when reviewing >>> changes that might affect them but of course changing IDL bindings is only >>> one of a number of ways that a change to central could break an existing >>> experiment. This is one of the drawbacks of having out-of-tree code, I >>> think its up to us (the webextensions maintainers) to either deal with >>> this >>> or get experiments worked into automation if this becomes a real problem >>> in >>> practice. >> >> Whoa. Experiments aren't tested in automation? > > Whoa. We're going to still have to think about interface compat with > external clients in a post-57 world? This is the first I've heard of > this. > >> Can they be, please? At least snapshotted versions. > > +1 Almost anything automation-related would be better than "hope > peers think hard about this". > > -Nathan > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
