The Android platform already has fairly strong community support, much stronger than some other OSS projects I've had experience with.
There is a level of fanatisism amongst VCS supporters, as with a lot of competing technologies. However this is not the reason why Git is the chosen VCS for Android. Git provides a more flexible workflow pattern so different businesses can work together more efficiently, it also inverts ownership of the sourcecode - it it possible to clone the entire project history and work offline/away from Google, working to your own push schedule. From a business point of view, Git is a key technology for avoiding developers having to sync with Google's workflow. There are other benefits, but I leave that to you as homework. I think many would agree with you on the windows build support benefits, but you haven't yet explained why you yourself can't make this happen for us. Are you too busy? Because I'm sure the core Android devs are... personally I think Windows is the wrong platform for anything but Windows application development, but I'm just one man. If you decide to take the project on, be sure to keep people posted on the dev list, I'm sure your efforts won't be wasted. On May 6, 2009 9:58 AM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: All answers I got was about technology, but not about business and future. Without proper community support vendors will not invest into Android development. GIT vs SVN - is it a philosophy war?! As I said I do not see any good point that stops from using SVN instead of GIT... distributed nature cost very low, due to low usage of it. SVN usage is more correct from market/business side of platform moving forward. Also for business will be right to attach Windows developers, because there quantity and experience are very significant. How much MacOS and Linux take in OSs market?! less then 10%. So quantity of developer on those OSs in several time less then on Windows platform. Allocating at least several percents from Windows developer spool into Android spool will give greater boost to the Android as a platform. Android can become a powerful platform only if many developers found that porting from one mobile platform to another not so hard task. Android requires a lot of internal fixes for proper support of many technologies and Google can continue to keep all this together, but be more opened to the community means better future for it. On May 6, 9:36 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very familiar with git-sv... > On May 5, 2009 4:59 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > subversion migration is an ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subs... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
