Greg Miller wrote:
> Andreas Franke wrote:
> >
> > There are areas where third parties are unable to
> > contribute because APIs don't even exist yet.
> > [...]
> > I think it is necessary to come up with a reasonable
> > plan of attack for problems of this kind as soon as
> > possible, but certainly before Mozilla 1.0.
>
> A plan of attack? Sure, but lets not get into a situation where new
> things are being pulled in pre-1.0. The number of bugs assigned to 0.9.x
> and 1.0 keeps gradually increasing due to minor features and fixes that
> could be done post-1.0, and this is the time to start weeding those out.
Sure, a "no new features" strategy may make sense,
but then mozilla 1.0 needs to happen very soon indeed.
I just wanted to point out that maybe from a third party's
point of view, non-existing APIs can be worse than
existing ones that aren't completely stable yet.
Andreas