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[Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On 19.08.2014 20:51, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> So I think we shouldn't do anything from a feature point of view.
> What we should tell developers is that they should update their apps
> frequently, and that they should always upload to the store versions
> of the frameworks that are on devices already. We will need to provide
> that information so they know percentages of users who have each
> framework, I will take that as a ToDo (hi Matias!).

just so I understand this correctly: the app namespace will be different 
for the same app targeting a different framework? This would mean that 
upgrades across frameworks wouldn't work seamlessly.


> Our goal is to not fragment our ecosystem in any significant way,
> which means we will for the most part update the majority of the
> devices in the wild at the same time.
> Right now, that means the recommended target framework is
> ubuntu-sdk-14.10, and it will continue to be so until we have pushed
> ubuntu-sdk-15.04 to all devices out there. Once the scale of number of
> users that have 15.04 tips past a certain point, we can start
> recommending developers upload with the 15.04 framework.

Users will use their handsets for a while and we are all hoping to get 
many devices out there, so at any time there will be a multitude of 
supported frameworks out there.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding all of this, but to me it sounds like if I am 
a developer who's actively working on an app, I might have to have 
com.ubuntu.developer.dholbach.superapp1410, 
com.ubuntu.developer.dholbach.superapp1504,
com.ubuntu.developer.dholbach.superapp1510, etc in the store.

Is this correct?


> My assumptions are that we will:
> - Update the base systems of all our devices in the same timeframe

Can you elaborate what this means?

> - We will not introduce new target frameworks outside of new versions of the OS

I'm not quite sure what this means either.


> If those don't pan out in reality, we can fall back on handling
> multiple versions and find the best way to do that.
>
> Am happy to have a hangout about it, of course.

Yeah, a hangout (with a diagram for me ;-)) might do wonders.

Have a great day,
 Daniel


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