brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Shane Fagan]

Hey Didier,

Sorry for the confusion.
I was referring to the other email from someone that had a point about
having tutorials for gstreamer and other upstream projects that people
can use for application development. To be clearer I think maintaining a
list of tutorials and what libs to use where is hard to maintain long
term. So its up to the upstreams to maintain the tutorials but we could
do maybe a list of links to their tutorials for instance for anything to
do with vala I like to the live.gnome.org page and it has tutorials for
most well known libs in vala to use.

Side note for more ubuntu specific stuff like desktop couch and the app
menus and stuff I think we should have more tutorials for those though
and maybe we should make a specific push to get all of those properly
documented in this release since they are fairly spotty at the moment.  

--fagan

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 18:05 +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 22:52 +0100, Bruno Girin a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 15:44 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The libs included in the default change a lot so maintaining a list
> > > would be hard and I dont think it would help too many people developing.
> > 
> > From an application developer's point of view, that's an issue because
> > it means that with every new Ubuntu release, you potentially have to
> > update your application to deal with changes in libraries. In addition,
> > you are under pressure to do that before the new Ubuntu release
> > otherwise your application may fail to work completely for a given
> > release. And to be honest, most developers would rather spend their time
> > adding new features rather than re-working existing ones for no obvious
> > improvement. This is even more pronounced with opportunistic developers
> > who may have a day job besides their Ubuntu apps and may not have the
> > time to spend on learning a new library and API every 6 months.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure about what Fagan is referring too, but we didn't
> change the technology from the start of Quickly in the
> ubuntu-application templates and derivatives.
> 
> This has been python/desktopcouch/python-gtk and we added
> apport/launchpadlib one month ago to new projects, but didn't require
> any change on user side.
> 
> Cheers,
> Didier
> 
>