On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Bharathi Subramanian bharathi.list@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).
Cheers,