On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Caio Chassot <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1) Great. Now when it breaks, whose fault is it? The application? The >> Plugin? Who has to fix it? > > That's a valid concern. I don't have a good answer, but I have a shitty > pragmatic one: > > If new version breaks your plugin, stick with old version. > > > As for who has to fix it? Is plugin core? Then core shouldn't ship with > incompatibilities in the first place. Is plugin open? Then anyone. > > We can't act as plugin nanny/gatekeeper. Some of the value and suck of open > source comes from the ensuing chaos around it.
Aaaand you just made John's point for him. "features" get relegated to plugins, then forgotten. Welcome to Thunderbird. Enjoy your (5 minute) stay. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
