Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > In a nutshell, yes, at this point, the level of transparency coming > from Google about Android is insufficient to sustain an active > Open-Source community for the Android Open-Source Project.
This isn't so much an open source thing. Any product with an SDK would run into this issue with what amounts to an API regression. It's a bit more pronounced when the theory is that the community could contribute code in addition to ideas. > For a list of things that could be > improved in the Download Provider, see > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/providers/DownloadProvider.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/index.html;hb=master#Future_Directions Oooooooooooooo! Is there a standard convention for docs/index.html holding this sort of stuff for different components? If not, does anyone have a list of links to these pages? This sort of information is rather useful, but buried in the bowels of a seemingly infinite number of git repos, it won't see the light of day. > I am convinced, though, that transparency and openness isn't an > all-or-nothing bit Agreed. And trust me, I understand, perhaps more than some, exactly how long a process it will take to achieve a bit more balance in terms of transparency and openness. I'm using this issue mostly to illustrate the point. After all, it's not merely that there is limited transparency -- I don't even have a clue of where transparency might show up. For example, for all I know, there was some list squirreled away somewhere that the public *could* have watched for debate on this topic. Or, maybe the debate was all in the middle of some Gerrit thingy. Or it was all done on IRC, or at a picnic lunch held in the shadow of a very large droid in Mountain View. I am less concerned about the specifics of Settings.Secure than I am the timing and process by which we in the community find out about such changes, and having the opportunity to participate in such changes to at least some degree. > but some can also come from non-Googlers. Yeah, yeah, yeah -- nag, nag, nag... ;-) -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
