*3-release-per year On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 2:55:32 PM UTC-4, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Thijs, > > We've settled on a 3-release-per cycle to strike a good balance between > the stability of the API, and access to newer features that AdWords > releases on a regular basis. We also try to time the releases such that in > many cases, you can skip over a release and go directly to the next one. > > If you find AdWords API to change pretty frequently, i recommend giving > AdWords Scripts a try. We try to shield the users as much as possible from > frequent changes in Scripts, but even there, a 3 year cycle like Twitter's > API is not realistic, since there are product feature changes that affect > user scripts (e.g. UI discontinues a particular feature). > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 8:55:55 AM UTC-4, Thijs van Dijk wrote: >> >> Call me crazy, but although I'm all in favour of API versioning, I think >> having versions that are deprecated after just four months (and completely >> shut down after eight months) makes very little sense. >> This way, client applications will go from working to buggy to nothing in >> little over half a year, and the cycle seems to repeat every four to five >> months. That's just ludicrous. >> >> I'd only expect this level of breakage if, for example, I were automating >> Ad submissions by using PhantomJS to simulate manually entering the form. >> This way, every CSS update would potentially introduce bugs. However, for >> an *I*nterface explicitly designed to *P*rogram *A*pplications, the >> current experience is sub-par. >> For comparison, if I remember correctly the Twitter REST API has gone >> from version 1 to 1.1 in the past three years. That's it. >> >> Frankly, I'm fed up with having to do constant client library updates; >> I'd much rather get on with my actual job. >> If you could somehow create an "LTS version", where my application will >> only catastrophically fail every two years, I'd sign up in an instant. >> >
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