It might make sense for someone to start working on this right now, independently from Google or the core Android team, in a way that'd be decoupled from the Google infrastructure.
This'd for sure relieve some resource pressure for the people who are working on the Android open-sourcing process at Google, as we're already overloaded and can't really take on additional tasks at the moment. JBQ (who's looking forward to a real work-free week-end as his previous one was a month ago). On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quoting JBQ from "[android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for > download" > > "BTW, I'm very much looking forward to the start of the next Android > development cycle, since for the first time in the history of Android > such a cycle will start with the source code being openly available. > Things won't quite be perfect the first time around, we'll learn from > the issues that we are going to face, and we'll all work better > together for subsequent development cycles." > > Having automatically-generated nightly SDK and emulator image builds > would be one useful milestone in all of this. Whether those builds are > centrally created (e.g., on a Google build farm) or federated via a > tinderbox-style system is certainly up for debate. > > Once we have nightlies, we can do more in the way of recurring smoke > tests, so we can get non-developers contributing to see if anything > unexpected is broken. Also, green-flagged nightlies might serve in the > role of the SDKs that Mr. Sutton is distributing, as interim SDKs > developers can test with for application compatibility. > > I hope the core Android team will reach out to us at "the next Android > development cycle", so we can figure out what we can collectively do > regarding things like this. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
