On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2017 09:23 AM, Andrew Swan wrote:
>> I would hope that if we have promising or widely used webextension
>> experiments, that the relevant peers would be aware of them when reviewing
>> changes that might affect them but of course changing IDL bindings is only
>> one of a number of ways that a change to central could break an existing
>> experiment.  This is one of the drawbacks of having out-of-tree code, I
>> think its up to us (the webextensions maintainers) to either deal with
>> this
>> or get experiments worked into automation if this becomes a real problem
>> in
>> practice.
>
> Whoa. Experiments aren't tested in automation?

Whoa.  We're going to still have to think about interface compat with
external clients in a post-57 world?  This is the first I've heard of
this.

> Can they be, please? At least snapshotted versions.

+1  Almost anything automation-related would be better than "hope
peers think hard about this".

-Nathan
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