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Subject: Re: [CORE PLUGINS] Expansion of features needs to be discussed in
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:11:35 -0500
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+1 as well :-)

~ Kerri

> On Apr 25, 2017, at 17:34, Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1. Agree to all of this.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Filip Maj <maj.fil@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I know some of the plugins (all of them?) call out at the top of the
>> docs that they are based on standards. I think we should be more
>> dilligent in referencing those specs when discussing/weighing changes
>> to the APIs.
>> 
>> It would be a lot easier to maintain a stance such as "this does not
>> follow the spec, thus we cannot accept it" if we walked the walk and
>> didn't just talk the talk. By that I mean that we should put effort
>> in:
>> a) modernizing the plugins that are still valuable,
>> b) making the hard decisions to remove outdated plugins, and
>> c) blogging/documenting transition paths for consumers of plugins we
>> decide to get rid of
>> 
>> The sooner we do this the less of a burden on the project.
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:56 PM, julio cesar sanchez
>> <jcesarmobile@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Whenever I see a PR for a new feature I tell the author to send a mail to
>>> discuss it, most of them don't do it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2017-04-25 22:22 GMT+02:00 Simon MacDonald <simon.macdonald@gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>>> Hey Shazon,
>>>> 
>>>> I agree with this goal. Our plugins were based upon W3C standards as
>>>> they existed when the plugins were created. The standards have moved
>>>> on and we haven't had as much time as we would like to stay in sync. A
>>>> number of core plugins have been superseded by API's already available
>>>> in browsers (I'm looking at you, cordova-plugin-device-motion).
>>>> 
>>>> Changes to any of the core plugins should align themselves with W3C
>>>> specs so we can increase code reuse across platforms and decrease our
>>>> support and maintenance costs.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Simon Mac Donald
>>>> http://simonmacdonald.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Shazron <shazron@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>> Resources are limited and we can barely keep up with all the core
>> plugin
>>>>> work that needs to be done, so we have to have a process with dealing
>>>> with
>>>>> desired features that community members send out as PRs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Firstly I want to acknowledge that external contributions are valued
>>>> highly
>>>>> by the team, but they need to fulfill Cordova's goals and not be a
>>>>> maintenance burden on the project.
>>>>> 
>>>>> GOAL:
>>>>> Core plugins should conform to standards whenever possible, and we
>> should
>>>>> not add new features nor expand existing features without a consensus
>> on
>>>>> dev@
>>>>> 
>>>>> ROADMAP:
>>>>> I will be putting out another thread where I will propose a concrete
>>>>> roadmap for the existing core plugins -- listing those that will make
>> the
>>>>> maintenance cut, and/or listing those that are scheduled for sunset.
>> So
>>>> put
>>>>> your two cents there.
>>>> 
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