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Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:58:58 -0400
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Subject: Re: Sending BB7 to the farm
From: Don Coleman <don.coleman@gmail.com>
To: "dev@cordova.apache.org" <dev@cordova.apache.org>
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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 <bhiggins@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.dev@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
> >
>

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