FYI

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jean-Baptiste Queru jbq@android.com Date: 21 June 2012 12:22 Subject: Contributing to dalvik/libcore: small changes To: android-contrib@googlegroups.com

We're slightly changing the way we manage some branches, please note the following changes in the way contributions now work in the dalvik and libcore projects:

-New contributions to those projects need to be prepared in the master-dalvik branch. The master branch (and other active development branches) use a frozen snapshot of those projects, on top of which we can't accept contributions.

-Existing contributions to those projects (i.e. that have been uploaded) need no further action.

-If you have a master client, you can switch to master-dalvik with "repo init -b master-dalvik ; repo sync".

-Technically, you can use master-dalvik to contribute to any project, but that's not recommended. Unless you're explicitly contributing to dalvik or libcore, please use the plain master branch to prepare your contributions.

-Note that, since the master branch uses a frozen snapshot, changes contributed to the dalvik and libcore projects in master-dalvik don't get reflected in master.

-This does not affect tagged releases, those will continue to be managed as usual.

JBQ

-- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Technical Lead, Android Open Source Project, Google.

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