On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 07/31/2013 08:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

They understand that just fine and that is why the extension system has
been created and dozens and dozens of extensions exist and are widely
used. Your fear about breakages are not realistic in recent releases.
From the next release, extensions are even auto-updated on demand so
there is even less reason to worry about them.

Well, the Gnome devs have said more than once that they won't try to avoid breaking them. Have they changed their policy?

I am not aware of the policy you are referring to. It sounds like a misunderstanding. Perhaps you can provide a reference?

Rahul