Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Jason Warner]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Robert Park <robert.park at canonical.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm fairly certain Robert A didn't mean process changes here. That's a
different topic and suggest we keep it as such.


>
>
> * Rolling release, get it? ;-)
>
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