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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On miércoles 20 de agosto de 2014 05h'45:57 ART, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> 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?

This is the dream; I think the objective is to not be like Android and have 
different releases out in the wild with a high dispersion in the 
population. Ideally, our dispersion should be small and with a mean 
trending to the latest stable release; which means, everyone is basically 
on the latest framework. This is why we have a customization framework 
instead of people changing the ubuntu rootfs directly.

With that though, the developers just need to target the frameworks that 
exist on that higly used latest release.


> > - 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