Technically there are two platforms right now. Android has minimal support, and Jesse wants to do WP8 (again minimal), so thats another.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for labs. it doesn't really make sense to have them in core if they only > support one platform. > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, James Jong <wjamesj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Similar to keyboard plugin, I like the idea of letting this bake in labs > > for now and moving them into core if we see multiple platforms start > > needing a similar API. So (a) and (c) for me. > > > > I would add that the iOS 6/7 specific code may not make sense as "core". > > > > -James Jong > > > > On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have created a task in JIRA for all the statusbar related discussion. > > [1] > > > There are numerous inconsistencies we need to address here. > > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6177 > > > > > > @purplecabbage > > > risingj.com > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Some background on the statusbar plugin. > > >> > > >> This was conceived because of iOS 7 where the statusbar overlays the > > >> webview, and a lot of people didn't like their UI changing especially > if > > >> they still support iOS 6. That is the primary purpose of this plugin, > > but > > >> there are other features in there as well. In the last few weeks, > there > > was > > >> a pull request (now integrated) for StatusBar.hide and StatusBar.show > > for > > >> Android as well. > > >> > > >> The issues related to the statusbar are under the label > > "statusbar-plugin" > > >> in JIRA, and there are currently 11 open issues. There are pull > requests > > >> for it from the PhoneGap Build team that I am waiting to integrate -- > > not > > >> until we get this namespace stuff sorted out. > > >> > > >> I am not opposed to it being under the "labs" namespace. After talking > > to > > >> the Adobe team, we could also host the plugin under the PhoneGap > Github > > >> org, but I'd rather use that as a last resort. > > >> > > >> > > >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> (a) Yes. > > >>> (b) No -- some organizations (Adobe) don't like this, and we respect > > >> that. > > >>> We also want to point users at these plugins, so its good to have > > >>> developers protected by Apache. > > >>> (c) Sure -- so long as labs is clearly separate, and we leave them > out > > of > > >>> blogs / plugin release notes, and we don't impact the rate of > releases > > >>> (i.e. we don't force devs to test the labs plugins, just verify the > > >>> signatures is enough). > > >>> (d) I think the "guardian" of these labs plugins should be free to > > >> publish. > > >>> There is no reason they are lower quality than anything else. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Separate issue: is statusbar ready for Core? I think we should leave > > it > > >> in > > >>> labs for a little bit, have at least a few eyes audit the API and > > >>> investigate if there is any other similar work in the field before we > > >> make > > >>> users depend on this, but that it should move to core eventually. > > >>> > > >>> -Michal > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Shazron <shaz...@apache.org> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> statusbar is already published org.apache.cordova.statusbar. > > >>>> > > >>>> And... Since these plugins are somewhat experimental and we're > > starting > > >>> the > > >>>> process of voting and publishing plugins to dist/, I wonder: > > >>>> > > >>>> a) Should we change the ID of these plugins to, say > > >>>> "org.apache.cordova.labs" > > >>>> b) Should we move these plugins to github and have them not under > > >> apache > > >>>> for now, e.g.: com.shazron.statusbar > > >>>> c) Should we just add them to the plugin release process. > > >>>> d) Should we just never publish them to the registry and have people > > >> use > > >>>> them via git url. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > >
