| Re: [sequoyah-android-dev] Google opening up to contributions |
Very cool. Then we can focus the discussion at the summit on technical items.
Thanks,
Doug
On Jul 23, 2010 2:43 PM, "Xavier Ducrohet" <xav@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I'm glad you raised this point, as I was planning on talking to you
> and Eric about it at the CDT summit.
>
> Quick note on our current status:
> Yes we are very much open to contribution on the tools. Right now
> development for the SDK tools (including the ADT plug-ins) is done
> entirely in the open (since a bit before IO), and we intend to move
> development of the NDK (scripts and tools) to the open soon.
>
> I'll admit we haven't yet move discussions to the open, because since
> we're the only ones contributing so far, it's a lot easier (especially
> when you sit in the same office), but we're going to work on this. The
> recent android-contrib mailing list is the place to start talking
> about contributions, roadmap, etc...
>
> I also plan on having more documentation about tools specific
> contribution, roadmap, todo list, etc.. on source.android.com (just
> need to find time to write it).
> Finally, we started using the external bug tracker a bit more, we did
> some cleaning up, but there's much more to do there.
>
> By the way, a quick side note. I don't think we've ever rejected tools
> contributions. It's just been hard for external contributors when they
> had no idea what was going on in our internal repository and I think
> that prevented the creation of a community.
>
> I would love if the NDK integration was done in ADT. It just makes
> more sense to me. Also, I'm concerned about whether or not it can be
> fully done in Sequoyah without dependencies on ADT. I think we can do
> a better integration directly in ADT (or as an extension to ADT)
>
> If you want to contribute to AOSP, we are ready to support you and
> help in any way we can.
>
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Ducrohet
> Android SDK Tech Lead
> Google Inc.
>
> Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks!
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