"intent to implement" means that someone *wants* to implement something behind a flag. It does not mean that the thing was already implemented. It certainly doesn't mean that it shipped. It's an "FYI - I want to play around with X"
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We typically also ask folks to file a TAG review at that point so that the TAG has time to review and provide feedback *as early as possible*
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"implemented behind a flag" basically means that the some code has landed and interested developers can play around with the API. Users don't have it enabled (by default) so developers can't expect to rely on that API for non-demo sites
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"intent to experiment" or having a feature behind an origin trial means that interested developers can play around with the feature on their site with real users, but *for a limited time*. The API shape may not be final and likely to change.
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The goal of the trial is to learn if the API is good enough, or it should be changed in some fundamental way. We believe that it's good to realize that before something has shipped, and changing it incurs a significant cost on both developers and browsers
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"intent to ship" means that someone wants to enable a feature by default, so that developers can use it and users can benefit from it. Note that it does not mean that the feature has already shipped!
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At that point the API owners need to weigh in and decide if shipping the feature is risky and/or beneficial and decide on the right tradeoff between interoperability, compatibility and moving the web forward.
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They do that in the form of LGTMs (or "Looks Good To Me"). It takes three of those for a feature to ship
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Replying to @yoavweiss
Ultimately those 3 x LGTMs are still internal to Google though
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Replying to @AndyDavies
Multiple folks were non-Google API owners, myself included (before I joined)
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