I personally think Google contribute (to the Java ecosystem) more with expertise than hard lines of code in the libraries. When they bought Android and needed an application stack, they looked around and found a clean-room library implementation which would not require license fees. Whether they committed upstream to the Harmony libraries is hardly a measure of community involvement in general. For that, you need broader data points: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/10/05/open-source-email-traffic/
On Oct 12, 8:09 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/10 19:43 , Stuart McCulloch wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12 October 2010 18:08, [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > To: "The Java Posse" [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Cc: > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:28:43 -0700 (PDT) > > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle/IBM Pact cuts Android off at > > the Knees > > > > The current list of Harmony comitters, 9 IBMers (and I doubt > > that they > > > will stop their involvement): > > BTW, did you guys note that there's nobody from Google? So, did > > really Android not contribute anything back to Harmony? > > > committers != contributions > > > if you do a quick search on JIRA it looks like they contributed back a > > lot of javadoc and some fixes: > > >https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&;... > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&;...> > > So, 32 issues, most of which are javadocs, are the only contribution of > Google back to Harmony? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
