[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #9145: Move the BP REST API into BuddyPress core

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#9145: Move the BP REST API into BuddyPress core
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 Reporter:  espellcaste               |       Owner:  espellcaste
     Type:  task                      |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  15.0.0
Component:  REST API                  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |
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Comment (by imath):

 Thanks for your explanations @espellcaste I think I misunderstood your
 intent. I thought just like the WP REST API, going v2 would mean
 **deprecating v1** (see #comment:1 the `Version 1 could be deprecated`
 part).

 Reading your explanations, I understand you want to maintain each possible
 version of the BP REST API. It's great, but it requires a lot more work.

 You took Woocommerce as an example, this project has 1,396 contributors
 listed on their GitHub repository, we have 17 contributors listed on ours:
 this makes me think we should consider more reachable expectations, for
 example: actively maintain the latest version of the BP REST API (and
 deprecate all previous ones). I think we should try to keep things as
 simple as possible for us and for the people who will come after us.

 I personally think a "more than 5 years" inconsistency is becoming a
 strong motive to go v2 😅.

 My suggestion is to do one bigger change, instead of 2 successive changes.
 But I'm open to different opinions, as your first intent for this ticket
 was to simply move v1 here, if the majority of team members also think we
 should only do that: I can wait for a v2, but the more we wait, the more
 it will be difficult to deal with making the change (waiting 10 years for
 rewrites already showed this to us).

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