> My guess would be he's trying to test it before committing. To me, this would be a branch, not a fork. 'fork' to me says, 'I'm making a branch here, and I don't intend to merge back with where I'm branching from'. Perhaps this does not match other people's definition of the word 'fork' in this context, but my definition motivated my question.
Cheers, Justin Android Team @ Google On Oct 28, 7:50 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Al Sutton > > W:www.alsutton.com > B: alsutton.wordpress.com > T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
