On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-07-16 9:21 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Benjamin Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> FWIW, I've sent an intent to implement for the Streams API, but I won't >>> be >>> able to actually start work until Q4. I just listed that as "favorable" >>> for now. Not sure if we need a clearer "we intend to implement this but >>> just haven't been able to start yet" status. >>> >> >> I would rather have: >> - done (Firefox X) >> - planned (with some vague time frame) >> - "under investigation" or "no current plans" >> >> Streams seems straightforward enough. navigator.connect would fall >> into the last category. >> > > I think we need to have a way to signal that we are not going to implement > a specific feature in addition to those categories (without delving into > the specific example here, but yes this is one of those features.) That > sends a useful signal to other browser vendors and web developers. I know > that for us, it would be hugely helpful to know if vendor X is actively > planning to not implement a certain feature when weighing the pros and cons > of working on something. I can imagine the same would be useful for other > vendors, and it would be nice if we did that. > > Thinking about this more, I really don't see why we should try to narrow > down the list to fewer items. I feel like our default position on a random > spec is "no opinion", because we aren't aware of the content. After someone > studies it a bit, we can spend a while to consider it, and then defer it to > some point into the future (as in "in support of, without current plans"), > or decide to work on it soon, or decide that we should not work on it, > etc. Of course, we can't get too fine grained to keep things > comprehensible and realistic to keep updated, but a couple of additional > categories wouldn't hurt! I don't think it's important to minimize the number of categories, but I do think it's a mistake to have categories which provide sentiment but not definiteness. What I mean by that is that I'm not a big fan of "favorable" and "unfavorable" but rather I'd rather see "planned" and "we do not intend to implement this" (though maybe there's a way to make that shorter). -Ekr _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
