Comment 38 for bug 578045

@ Marius Kotsbak (mariusko):
I agree packaging of desktop apps really should be work of third party developers. In order to reduce their work , I think half-year release is too frequent and we should reccommend only LTS versions to developers to support and new users to use. Users and devs usually don't need the features of desktop environment imported every 6 months. They just need it to be stable enough and functional. Two-year release cycle is just fine and time should be enough to sort out all bugs before release. I don' t think 6 months is enough.
After watching this video "UDS N Monday plenary: Getting great applications on Ubuntu" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5fUcMUfYg , I think Ubuntu developers are well aware of this problem and the progress in usc and myapps is great. Upstream developers should be encouraged and guided to submit apps through myapps and should be allowed to replace the ones in universe repo.