Hi @SamLeatherdale ,
Thank you for your detailed response, and for extending the deadline.
Given the decision, I would love to press both the Atlassian Security Team as well as senior Atlassian Ecosystem leadership to provide more clarity on the future of Connect. The community deserves better than slowly deprecating Connect features using Security as a pretext. In the end, everything can be back-ported to Connect if you just make the investment. It is a business decision from Atlassian to not further invest in the platform, and it would be great if you can be more upfront about it.
Obviously, making the decision to deprecate Connect is Atlassian’s prerogative, but I think Atlassian owes it to their Atlassian Marketplace Partners to be more transparant about the future of the platform. Personally, I would expect Atlassian to not deprecate features until Forge is on par with Connect, but I understand the milage of moral standards may vary.
Unfortunately, Atlassian has not shared an Org chart, so there is not really anyone I can tag from senior leadership in this discussion because I don’t know who that person would be. So I will just summon whomever I can hoping that they will convey this message within Atlassian.