2008/3/29 Stone Mirror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The open source community at large, historically speaking, *hates *"code > dumps" (aka "toss-it-over-the-wall-ware") *especially *extremely huge > ones. >
Yeah, that's definitely on our minds. We feel pretty bad that we've got such a huge pile of changes that we haven't been able to send upstream. We understand how open source projects operate, and we'll work with the specific upstream teams to send them our code in whatever way works best for them. Implicit in your observation is that large dumps are a lot of work. It would be pointless and rude to dump a huge pile of changes on a project all at once. Waiting until we can do a good job of releasing the source also means waiting until we can dedicate the attention to the upstream projects that they deserve. Evidently the existing work in the open source community wasn't good enough > for Google. It seems to be good enough for Moblin, for Ubuntu Mobile, for > the LiMo Foundation and numerous others. > You seem to be saying that open-source is a zero sum game, and that effort we spend on Android somehow detracts from those other projects. By your argument, Linus Torvalds was wrong in creating Linux; he should have bit the bullet and contributed to Minix, instead. We believe that the more open source code is out there, the better. We'll just keep plugging along on the stuff that actually available now, I > guess... > Please do! The last thing we want is to force developers to pick a single platform. - Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Internals" 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-internals?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
