From 3eb60300c09fe1df95648139d3db63c7fcd81270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: maverickmishra Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:06:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] CB-13608: Added blog post about deprecation of cordova-plugin-contacts --- ...27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md diff --git a/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md b/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..33b0e9d927 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +layout: post +author: + name: Vishal Mishra + url: https://twitter.com/tweetsbymishra +title: "Deprecation of the Cordova Contacts Plugin" +categories: news +tags: cordova globalization +--- + +## Deprecation of the Cordova Contacts Plugin + +We are hereby announcing the deprecation of cordova-plugin-contacts. This means that the Cordova development community will not be doing any more work on this plugin. You can continue to use this plugin as-is but any further issues will not be fixed by the Cordova team. Generally when we deprecate plugins, we have an alternative standards API to migrate to, however, the latest [W3C Contacts API](https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/) indicates that the work on implementing a standard has been discontinued because of various privacy and security issues. Some of the main issues are potential compromise of users' contacts, safe and timely disposal of contact information by the recipient and inadvertent granting of permission by the user. + + + +Your feedback is graciously accepted and appreciated! From 2f48b66b68eaa249d4748c608e8ea31db556c4ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: maverickmishra Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:23:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] CB-13608: Updated the blog sections --- .../2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md b/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md index 33b0e9d927..97b6b5b760 100644 --- a/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md +++ b/www/_posts/2017-11-27-Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.md @@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ tags: cordova globalization ## Deprecation of the Cordova Contacts Plugin -We are hereby announcing the deprecation of cordova-plugin-contacts. This means that the Cordova development community will not be doing any more work on this plugin. You can continue to use this plugin as-is but any further issues will not be fixed by the Cordova team. Generally when we deprecate plugins, we have an alternative standards API to migrate to, however, the latest [W3C Contacts API](https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/) indicates that the work on implementing a standard has been discontinued because of various privacy and security issues. Some of the main issues are potential compromise of users' contacts, safe and timely disposal of contact information by the recipient and inadvertent granting of permission by the user. +We are hereby announcing the deprecation of cordova-plugin-contacts. + +This means that the Cordova development community will not be doing any more work on this plugin. You can continue to use this plugin as-is in existing and new applications but any further issues will not be fixed by the Cordova team. + +Generally when we deprecate plugins, we have an alternative standards API to migrate to, however, the latest [W3C Contacts API](https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/) indicates that the work on implementing a standard has been discontinued because of various privacy and security issues. Some of the main issues are potential compromise of users' contacts, safe and timely disposal of contact information by the recipient and inadvertent granting of permission by the user.