On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:22:45AM -0500, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think you are misreading this. Allwinnner is trying to increase > their appeal in Western markets. Joining Linaro will increase these > Western ties. Big companies that have already made it send fluff > engineers, not small companies climbing the ladder. Smartest thing for > Allwinner to do is rotate their engineers through Linaro relatively > quickly so that they learn normal Linux practices. > > I would very much like to see Allwinner adopt normal Linux and Android > build practices and become more involved in upstreaming code. Right > now they just release tarballs which have no history or any way of > tracking changes. So if Linaro teaches them about these processes we > are all winners. > > I'd love to just see the first step of them maintaining forked Android > repos off from Google's master copies. In turn that would let their > customers fork the Allwinner repos with their custom changes. Doing > that would enable security updates to flow through the repo chain. > Currently there is absolutely no mechanism for pushing security > updates. > > There are some topnotch Linux engineers working at Linaro. Let's hope > they mentor the Allwinner people so that they can take the practices > they learn back to China. > > Besides, why can't linux-sunxi cooperate with the Linaro people? > Everything Linaro does is on open mailing lists and servers. Maybe > some of the linux-sunxi developers might poke around inside Linaro now > and see if they can get themselves hired.
Time will tell. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
