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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/6/20 2:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Thu Feb 06 2020 14:28:20 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Magnus
Melin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi"><mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 2020-02-06 21:04, Tanstaafl wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Out of curiosity... since all Addons must be signed, is there not
some way that that process could be leveraged to automatically
start collecting all of the 'Experimental APIs' being used by those
Addons, to provide a list of potential new permanent APIs that
should/could be added?
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Thunderbird doesn't currently require add-ons to be signed.
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Odd... I thought they did. Apologies...
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I don't understand, how would signing make it easier to collect
experimental apis
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My thought was, signing is a process whereby each Addon must be reviewed
somehow, and that we could leverage that process to 'grab' the
experimental APIs...
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Ideally yes, an experimental api, when well designed, would be
absorbed as a new official API.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">So... shouldn't there be a formal process for reviewing each
experimental Addon that is submitted to the Addons site, grab the
experimental API, and add it to a list of possible new permanent APIs?</pre>
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<p>Isn't this that process?</p>
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