On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Ricardo Salveti <ricardo.salv...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Bharathi Subramanian > <bharathi.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I feel, Linaro should maintain only 2 versions - stable and unstable >> external source. instead of maintain staging, tracking, landing, >> mainline etc .. I understand internally lot of activities may happen >> with partners. But for external people, it is should be simple. As of >> now, only people who are closely tracking the Linaro development can >> start using the code quickly. Others cannot and it is not the case >> with AOSP. > > While I see that it's useful for people to use the outcome of the > Android team to create products, I believe it's quite hard to keep > both stable and unstable with the goals and the resources we have. As > Zack said, these costumers don't actually care much if they are > running the latest stuff available, as long it behaves similarly as > AOSP. I believe we might have only two options here: have something > awesome to show that everybody will want no matter what (even Google), > or improving the user/developer experience a lot, making it even > better and easier than just grabbing the sources from AOSP. > > But one thing is clear for me, If we think that we can't reach any of > these goals, for me it'd make sense to drop the whole stable > discussion, and focus even more on trying to get stuff at upstream, so > when people decide to use AOSP, they will already consume what Linaro > helped producing (what is the *real* stuff IMHO, as it'll improve the > *whole* thing).
+1 If our intent is to make something akin to Cyanogenmod available for our member boards and or another devices then stable makes sense. As cool as that might be, I don't think that's the case, least not unless we were to see community upswell of help to make that happen. I agree with Ricardo, upstream has to be priority one. > Cheers, > -- > Ricardo Salveti de Araujo > -- Regards, Tom "Where's the kaboom!? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" Marvin Martian Multimedia Tech Lead | Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs w) tom.gall att linaro.org w) tom_gall att vnet.ibm.com h) tom_gall att mac.com _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
