Please consider creating a *stable* API

2015-06-10 Thread Thijs van Dijk
Call me crazy, but although I'm all in favour of API versioning, I think having versions that are deprecated after just four months (and completely shut down after eight months) makes very little sense. This way, client applications will go from working to buggy to nothing in little over half a

Re: Please consider creating a *stable* API

2015-06-10 Thread Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)
Hi Thijs, We've settled on a 3-release-per cycle to strike a good balance between the stability of the API, and access to newer features that AdWords releases on a regular basis. We also try to time the releases such that in many cases, you can skip over a release and go directly to the next

Re: Please consider creating a *stable* API

2015-06-10 Thread Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)
*3-release-per year On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 2:55:32 PM UTC-4, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team) wrote: Hi Thijs, We've settled on a 3-release-per cycle to strike a good balance between the stability of the API, and access to newer features that AdWords releases on a regular