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Bug 288559

Summary:	Focus on compatibility
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	daniel_megert, remy.suen
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2009-09-03 16:00:38 EDT

Migrating across major platform releases is costly for consumers due to the magnitude of API and behavioral changes between releases. We will focus on reducing the migration cost by careful analysis of changes for their impact on compatibility, avoiding breaking behavior changes, use of API tooling to identify and correct breakages early, and better documentation of changes that impact compatibility.

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2010-05-07 09:42:39 EDT

This plan item has been committed. We have made use of the improved API use scan facility to avoid unnecessary breakages of both API and internal code this release.