Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I don't think that's feasible with a RR model. We don't even control
> most of the APIs that are in Ubuntu even.
> 
> As Matthew Paul Thomas and others pointed out, we primarily want to
> recommend the LTS releases on the download page and for most users, so
> that's certainly what ISVs should target, too?

I don't think we can make any commitment against all of Ubuntu or all of
main, but we could pick a subset by product and commit to some level of
API and ABI support for this subset.  e.g. this blessed set of core
libraries would be guaranteed to be included in the next LTS, this
blessed set of Unity APis would be available in the Touch and Desktop
releases, this blessed set of KDE APIs would be available in the next
release etc.

This would be a prerequisite to releasing standalone SDKs that people
could run on other GNU/Linux distros and eventually perhaps even from
Windows and OSX as to target Ubuntu.

This should probably be a new thread though  :-)

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Loïc Minier