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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Leonard Richardson wrote:

>> Hi Gary, Leonard,
>> 
>> How will the API's version numbers track or match up with Ubuntu release?
>> Will there be a new API version for every Ubuntu release?  Is there a wiki
>> page on dev.lp.net that documents the mapping?
> 
> Barry,
> 
> There's no guarantee there will be a new API version for every Ubuntu
> release. There's also no necessary relationship between the version
> numbers and the name of the first Ubuntu release to use it by default--I
> think that would confuse more than it would help.
> 
> The only relationship between API versions and Ubuntu releases is that
> we can't deprecate an API version until the EOL of the last Ubuntu
> release to use it by default.
> 
> If you go to the apidoc index page on edge
> (https://edge.launchpad.net/+apidoc/), it now shows a list of all the
> active versions, and the description of each version shows the last
> Ubuntu release to use it.

Nice!  I added a link from the page I mentioned in my reply, https://dev.launchpad.net/Foundations/Webservice and got rid of the duplicate information.