[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40748: Use REST API for Community Events

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#40748: Use REST API for Community Events
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 Reporter:  iandunn                              |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  REST API                             |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  trunk
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback needs-unit-   |  Resolution:
  tests                                          |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by jnylen0):

 Replying to [comment:12 azaozz]:
 > This is a "mostly" private end point. We don't plan on maintaining 100%
 backwards compatibility and don't recommend for plugins to reuse. It may
 (and probably will) change in 4.8, 4.9, etc.
 >
 > One of the original ideas was to also add a front-end (standard) widget
 people can put on their sites. This can happen in the future and would
 mean things are likely to change a bit.
 >
 > I'm not sure what would be the best way to pass this message to plugin
 authors that may think to reuse the endpoint. Would that be in the schema
 somewhere? (Having this would also be quite helpful as a precedent for
 plugins.)

 AFAIK this doesn't exist yet.  We could add a flag, or we could say that
 anything under the `dashboard/v*` namespace is not subject to the same
 backwards compatibility expectations as `wp/v2`, and document this
 carefully.

 I question why we want to go ahead and say that we won't maintain
 backwards compatibility for this endpoint, though.  Shouldn't we try
 anyway?  Isn't that the whole point of the `/v1` versioning mechanism (new
 endpoints would be `/v2` or `/v1.1`, and the old ones would stay in
 place)?

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