+1 sunsetting BB7 On 5/8/13 8:58 AM, "Don Coleman" <don.cole...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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 >> > >>
