> I will agree that we've not been very good at advertising this.
>
> However, since April of this year the developer tools for Android are
> developed entirely in the open, and we have accepted several
> contributions from external people.
> If you want to contribute, register to the android-contrib google
> groups, talk to us about what you want to contribute, and then submit
> a patch.

Sounds good. I have been on the contrib list since it was first announced
and have been following the conversation so far.

> In this quarter we have plans to document the process on
> source.android.com, create a mailing list specifically for the dev
> tools, and (attempt to) create a true community around tools
> development as we know there are people out there making 3rd party
> tools for android (maven plug-ins, intellij, etc...) who would
> probably want better knowledge of what we do and have input on
> features and directions.
>
> The git projects for the tools is
> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/sdk.git;a=summary
> (the emulator is in
> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/qemu.git;a=summary)

Great. As a user of the SDK all day and hacker on the Maven Android plugin
here are my wishes:

- create an issue tracker that is actually used (NOT the standard android
one where reasonable request are ignored or declined)

- use the issue tracker internally and externally

- put roadmap type features into the issue tracker even if they are just
pipe dreams at this stage and have an acutal roadmap for it

- work with the community to get all the libraries of the tooling
(sdklib.jar and so on) and the sdk (android.jar, maps.jar) into maven
central or a google hosted maven repo so that all the other tools can
easily pick it up and use it.

Thats it for now. I look forward to work with you on some of these.

manfred
http://www.simpligility.com

PS: Should I cross post to contrib?

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