My guess would be he's trying to test it before committing.

Al.

Justin (Google Employee) wrote:
> Is there a reason not to contribute your changes back to mainline?
>
> Cheers,
> Justin
> Android Team @ Google
>
> On Oct 27, 5:37 pm, Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I'm a new G1 owner.  I was pretty bummed out by the state of the built-
>> in POP/IMAP client, so I dusted off my JDK to start to set things
>> right, but I've hit a bit of a stumbling block.  I've added a few
>> features to make the mail app more usable for me. (Specifically, key
>> bindings for things like delete in the index view and propagating
>> message deletion back to an IMAP server)
>>
>> The problem is that It appears that I can't remove or replace the
>> shipped Email application.
>>
>> I'd like to use and share my 'improved' mail client. To do that, it
>> looks like I'd have to fork it, change the name and so on, so it can
>> peacefully co-exist on a production G1.
>>
>> I'd really like to contribute my changes back to the core android
>> platform, but maintaining a renamed fork will make that less-than-fun.
>>
>> So, what should I do?
>>
>> -Jesse
>>     
> >
>   


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