On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> This openness is your strength, and I think that it will lead to success if > you > manage to build an active community of contributors. I'm not monitoring > this > closely, but it looks like it is not the case (yet). > Development has increasingly moved to the open. Unlike many open-source projects, we have a lot of complications that make it very difficult to just throw everything into the open: from the fact that in many countries you can't file patents after any information about them is publicly available, to needing to work with hardware manufacturers on major new features that are important for them to control the PR around for their devices. Development tools, Dalvik, and other things are now done in the open. There is increasing desire to have the framework done in the open, but this is challenging because it will by necessity mean we need to be working in two branches, to continue to keep sensitive work private until it can be released. Given that we also are often working on two more more active internal branches (for the current release under test, the next release in development, and often the next release after that), the development process for having yet another active branch (with all the corresponding merge issues and correctly deciding which branch X work should go in) is... not pleasant to contemplate. Also, we have been accepting an increasing number of patches from the community. I have regularly been reviewing and accepting multiple patches every week, as have other framework engineers. This is slacking off a bit as we wait for the froyo drop, but I am sure it will pick up again. Most patches don't need to be done on the very most recent head. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
