04: Fred Schott on Breaking Changes

> What is a breaking change about anyway?

Fred Schott (@FredKSchott) joins Henry to have a discussion around the topic of breaking changes in programming. We chat about Snowpack and Babel's major versions, different vision means a new name (Rome), semver, RFCs, BDFLs, breaking changes as bug fixes, forking, and more (recorded in April)! Transcript at https://podcast.babeljs.io/breaking

Headings:

• Intro: What is a Breaking Change?
• What is Snowpack: V1 to V2
• When is a Breaking Change Just a New Package?
• Re-Defining Semver?
• Famous Coder, Bruce Lee
• Commit: "fix stuff"
• On RFCs
• Project Vision: BDFLs and more
• On Removing Babel's TC39 Stage Presets
• Communicating Breaking Changes: React, Yarn, etc
• Are the Changes We Make Even Helpful?
• Different Vision, Different Name
• React 17, Babel 8?
• Rationalizing Breaking Changes as Bug Fixes
• Breaking Changes and Plugin Ecosystem
• Reverse Transforms for All Proposals
• Project Sustainability and Sponsorship
• Streaming Coding
• The Difficulty of Reaching Out
• Scaling Your Time, Managing Your Attention
• The Freedom of Contributors To Join and Leave
• The Value of Forking
• Platform Funding, Sponsorship
• "Babel Pika Fellowship"

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