tbr: jolla has been very careful to maintain a backwards compatible distro stephg , 15:29:38)

This is being talked about live on FOSDEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpABm5T7wMM Jaymzz_ , 15:29:48)

sledges jolla is going to open all of the webhooks and such that they use for the mer portion of sfos stephg , 15:31:01)

Stskeeps in general binary compatability isn't a problem stephg , 15:31:56)

there is also the problem of GPLv3 license changes with some packages stephg , 15:32:40)

typically upgrading glibc or gcc isn't a problem for bin compat, but packages tend to stop stephg , 15:33:11)

its not always as east to upgrade qt stephg , 15:33:37)

as not only bincompat but also js changes etc. stephg , 15:33:54)

Stskeeps says, that qt is the headache as you need to do lots of QA work on top of a stable release to "productize" tbr , 15:33:58)

the question we should ask at this point who is interesting in putting some work into aking mer build with a recent gcc and toolchan < tbr stephg , 15:35:49)

tbr: do we have experience with people in that context? stephg , 15:36:02)

(Stskeeps) qt isn't moving particuarly fast as an application platform stephg , 15:39:34)