That is fine for email (and I encourage people to help out, k-9 is a great project) but it doesn't address the failings of the "community will fix it" model.
By the time a community developer gets v1 of his/her work onto the phone, they are likely to have moved on. (Either through frustration or through simple elapsed time.) This is -especially- true for the framework itself - while you can fork the email client (or many of the built-in apps) at the cost of storage and effort (or just the loss of upstream patches) you cannot do that with the framework itself. Only two groups of people can play with the scheduler, for example. SanMehat et al at google, and those who hack their devices and risk out-of-warranty bricking to flash them as root. With an open device - 'engineering' model according to google - this is not a problem because the main bootoader can be used to reflash even when android is completely fried. This is not a situation the "community" can fix. (And that applies to much simpler problems, like wifi, power saving and taking pics or even video with the camera. None of these things can be tested in the emulator.) On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, > > If you're interested in helping to improve matters, rather than just > being frustrated by the first version of the built in Email client, > we'd welcome your involvement with K-9. > > Join us over at http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/ > > You don't have to be a software developer to be useful. We need folks > to test out the new features and bugfixes we've included in the > existing versions of K-9 and to help us design, translate and > otherwise help build out a world-class mail client for the future. > > Best, > > Jesse Vincent > Lead Dog Walker, K-9 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
