Hi


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
Then, people started writing extensions to allow you to change bits and pieces of this, but the Gnome devs were adamant that they weren't going to fold any of them into Gnome Shell, no matter how popular they were, and that they wouldn't make any effort to avoid breaking them

The evidence is to the contrary.  They have supported the framework that made these extensions possible in the first place and they certainly made some efforts to define the API better to avoid breakages. http://extensions.gnome.org and the infrastructure surrounding that wouldn't be developed if they hadn't cared about that.  

Rahul