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On 11/09/2012 09:06 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> What we're proposing is:
>>
>>   The previous aspirational statement that the PPB made in May 2012 
>>   about 3rd party APIs being implemented external to core stands. 
>>   However, where a given project does yet have expose a "stable, 
>>   complete, performant interface" for 3rd party APIs to build on, that 
>>   project may choose to accept proposed new APIs in the interim if it
>>   sees fit.
> 
> I find that acceptable... Do not prevent projects from accepting
> 3rd-party APIs if they want to, while restating that stable interface is
> the right end game.
> 
> Note that it means you (core devs) won't be able to retreat behind a TC
> motion to refuse unwanted 3rd-party APIs anymore. You will have to say
> NO. I think that's needed anyway (the guts to say NO to unwanted,
> unmaintained or undocumented features) if we want to stay successful.

+1

-jay