Hi Mark, I feel that, as they DO provide the issue tracker, they should also provide some feedback to the issues on it. Otherwise, why have the tracker at all?
Android, unlike the other "commercially-viable" platforms, is purportedly an open platform. The community is meant to be somewhat involved in it's future. Also, if the argument is that Android shouldn't respond to community requests because the competition don't, shouldn't Android be offering the features (or similar) that the competition does? If you read some of the discussions relating to some of these issues you'll see that there are developers discussing how the various issues could be solved or worked around. The only people missing from these discussions seem to be the actual Android dev team. This isn't to say that the dev team aren't solving the issues (for example I see recent changes to the ALSA libraries in the android source, I hope this will improve the audio latency issues), it's really that there isn't any feedback from the devs. If the issues are being worked on, provide some feedback, or shut down the issue tracker. Otherwise it's the net equivalent of /dev/null . Regards, Mike On Mar 15, 12:26 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mike Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > If developers don't have a feature road-map, or some reply from the > > dev team, they're very likely to jump ship (platform?). > > Do any other commercially-viable smartphone platforms offer what you > are seeking: a public issue tracker with popular issues tending to get > replies from the platform vendor? > > If so, cite 'em! I'd be interested to see how they're handling it. > > If not, Android is no worse on this score than the competition. > Ideally, they'd be better than the competition, but in this area, I'd > settle for them being on par, personally. > > I'd describe iOS, Blackberry, WebOS (sorta), and Windows Phone as > being "commercially-viable smartphone platforms", given Nokia's recent > maneuvers. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in Oslo:http://bit.ly/fjBo24 -- 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.
