Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Robert Park]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Robert Ancell
<robert.ancell at canonical.com> wrote:
> Are there any other good opportunities for us to start tackling?

How about the release process itself? Ubuntu Desktop has freeze
periods for it's 6-monthly releases while Ubuntu Touch just
steamrolls* right through. This causes some impedance mismatch for
packages which are both part of the phone and the desktop, such as
webbrowser-app, and this is only going to get worse as more and more
packages converge.

What is the solution? Will we make the desktop roll? Will we subject
the phone to freezes? I don't know which approach is superior but the
only thing that's certain is that the current situation has the worst
of both: desktop freeze slows down phone development, and phone
development destabilizes the desktop freezes.


* Rolling release, get it? ;-)