Yes, ways to engage the OHA members would help.. Fred Grott http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > First, I would like to thank you for this post, which I'm sure took some > time to properly craft. > > However, I have a few questions, mostly places needing a wee spot o' > clarification, or "how can we participate" sorts of stuff: > > Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > -The secondary goal is to accept code contributions that will be used > > to build future GEDs. > > > > Note that being a community project is explicit not a goal. > > How are you drawing the line between those? In other words, what > attributes are there of "community project" that AOSP is not planning to > have, yet AOSP still seeks "code contributions"? > > I don't doubt there is a valid distinction, but it'd be useful to > understand what you mean when you use the term "community project". > > > -The issue with uploaded changes not getting reviewed in a timely > > manner is primarily an issue of resources. > > <snip> > > > -The same issues of resources that's hurting the verification / > > approval / submission process has been similarly hurting the process > > around the public bug database. Google is looking for engineers to > > help with the Android Open-Source Project. > > I don't see any job listings out on Google's corporate site that seem to > fit this bill, but I might not be looking at the right ones (and > searching international jobs seems to be painful). Are there job > descriptions that you can point us to, that we can help promote, to > increase the odds that you can find the right people? > > > -There are a few areas where the AOSP code relies on non-Open-Source > > code that's shipped on GEDs. It'd be good to fix those (e.g. by > > removing the dependency or by writing Open-Source replacements for the > > non-Open-Source parts). > > Is there a roster of these anywhere that is publicly visible? > > > From the point of view of > > AOSP, this gross inability to provide any kind of supported reference > > hardware for community development is a major failure of OHA. > > Any suggestions on how we in the community can engage the OHA to try to > get this issue resolved? > > Thanks! > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
