On 06/04/2015 09:45 AM, Brian Gerstle wrote:
While it is (a little bit) nicer for new developers, they'll just burned (along with all the other current API users) when you change the defaults. What I'm trying to say is, changing the default seems like more work for more people with very little benefit. This is why https://developer.github.com/v3/ people https://www.reddit.com/dev/api version https://stripe.com/docs/api#charge_object APIs https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/rest-api.
I'd recommend reading https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41592, which contains a pretty good rationale of why we currently don't version the API.
-- Legoktm