don't really know about tinderboxen, but i'd love to have nightly builds of android. count me in :)
zero On Apr 6, 8:15 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I'm holding off committing anything to a more permanent build > farm until builds the open source repo are considered on a par with what > Google have. > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru > Sent: 05 April 2009 19:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Tinderboxen? > > At the moment, it's clear to me (being in the middle of it) that Google is a > major bottleneck when it comes to Android as an Open-Source project. > > As such, you can expect that we'll focus our energy primarily on things that > only Google can do, and much less on things that can also be done by anyone > in the community (assuming skills/time, of course), so that the desired end > result can be reached as quickly as possible. > > Putting together nightly builds, opening and maintaining a wiki (... > and helping direct traffic on the mailing lists, which you've been > doing) are aspects where the community as a whole can get involved right now > without help from Google. We're also looking for contributors to sanitize > the behavior of the open-source tree on dream, or to decouple some > unfortunate proprietary dependencies that still exist in the source tree. As > time goes and more of the Google-only tasks get completed, more such options > will open. > > Feel free to have the discussions about nightly builds on this group for > now, as we don't currently have a more appropriate one to have build-related > discussions on (we need one, I'm on it). > > JBQ > > PS: keep an eye onhttp://www.android.com/branding.htmlabout the right way > to use some of the brands. > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > >> 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. > > > I wasn't so much looking for the core Android team to do the work, > > unless it wanted to. I am never quite clear what things Google wants > > done where. > > > If anyone is interested in putting together a federated build system, > > for the purpose of generating nightly builds of key Android branches > > (e.g., cupcake), either reply here or contact me off-list. If I can > > get a team together, we'll work on getting a system up and running. > > > -- > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
