Is this not exactly how the Apple ecosystem works today? I think they push everyone on all of their platforms to the latest release, so app developers have a small set of API versions to worry about. My only point is, I this dream is achievable :)
Cheers, Rick On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Sergio Schvezov < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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