All right, there seems to be a bit of confusion around the mailing lists for the Android Open-Source Project, so I'll try to clarify things a little bit. Hopefully this'll help people better understand which list(s) to read, and which list to post to.
Fundamentally, besides the maintainers and administrators, there are 2 kinds of actors in the ecosystem of the Android Open-Source Project:
-the readers: those are people who download the source code from the Android Open-Source Project and use it for their own purposes. One of the things that can be done is to port the entire Android platform to new devices and ship those devices to consumers, but there are plenty of other uses cases (from studying the security model to try to adapt bits of Android to run in other environments).
-the writers: those are people who intend to contribute patches to the Android Open-Source Project, so that those patches can benefit everyone who uses the source code from the Android Open-Source Project. With the way the Android Open-Source Project is set up, those patches are considered for inclusion into Google's internal code repository (so they need to comply to Google's and other relevant coding practices and be accepted by Google engineers), and only become part of official releases if they make it through Google's scrutiny.
At the moment, there are 3 mailing lists set up to publicly discuss the various aspects of the Android Open-Source Project:
-If you're a reader, you should be posting to the android-porting mailing list.
-If you're a writer, you should be posting to the android-kernel mailing list (if you intend to contribute to the kernel) or to the android-platform mailing list (f you intend to contribute to user-space).
As a side note, if you're not sure which mailing list to post to, please don't cross-post. If you happen to post to the wrong mailing list, people there will direct you to the best mailing list.
It might be worth updating the Google Groups descriptions of the three
groups to point directly to the other relevant groups for reference.
I know there is the link to the Groups overview, but you've done a
great job of succinctly explaining which groups is best that it's
probably worth making it more prominent in the page to avoid the need
for people to wade through the groups overview trying to work out
which is best.
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On 18 Sep 2009, at 15:35, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote:
> All right, there seems to be a bit of confusion around the mailing
> lists for the Android Open-Source Project, so I'll try to clarify
> things a little bit. Hopefully this'll help people better understand
> which list(s) to read, and which list to post to.
> Fundamentally, besides the maintainers and administrators, there are 2
> kinds of actors in the ecosystem of the Android Open-Source Project:
> -the readers: those are people who download the source code from the
> Android Open-Source Project and use it for their own purposes. One of
> the things that can be done is to port the entire Android platform to
> new devices and ship those devices to consumers, but there are plenty
> of other uses cases (from studying the security model to try to adapt
> bits of Android to run in other environments).
> -the writers: those are people who intend to contribute patches to the
> Android Open-Source Project, so that those patches can benefit
> everyone who uses the source code from the Android Open-Source
> Project. With the way the Android Open-Source Project is set up, those
> patches are considered for inclusion into Google's internal code
> repository (so they need to comply to Google's and other relevant
> coding practices and be accepted by Google engineers), and only become
> part of official releases if they make it through Google's scrutiny.
> At the moment, there are 3 mailing lists set up to publicly discuss
> the various aspects of the Android Open-Source Project:
> -If you're a reader, you should be posting to the android-porting
> mailing list.
> -If you're a writer, you should be posting to the android-kernel
> mailing list (if you intend to contribute to the kernel) or to the
> android-platform mailing list (f you intend to contribute to
> user-space).
> As a side note, if you're not sure which mailing list to post to,
> please don't cross-post. If you happen to post to the wrong mailing
> list, people there will direct you to the best mailing list.
> Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private
> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further
> warning.
> All right, there seems to be a bit of confusion around the mailing
> lists for the Android Open-Source Project, so I'll try to clarify
> things a little bit. Hopefully this'll help people better understand
> which list(s) to read, and which list to post to.
> Fundamentally, besides the maintainers and administrators, there are 2
> kinds of actors in the ecosystem of the Android Open-Source Project:
> -the readers: those are people who download the source code from the
> Android Open-Source Project and use it for their own purposes. One of
> the things that can be done is to port the entire Android platform to
> new devices and ship those devices to consumers, but there are plenty
> of other uses cases (from studying the security model to try to adapt
> bits of Android to run in other environments).
> -the writers: those are people who intend to contribute patches to the
> Android Open-Source Project, so that those patches can benefit
> everyone who uses the source code from the Android Open-Source
> Project. With the way the Android Open-Source Project is set up, those
> patches are considered for inclusion into Google's internal code
> repository (so they need to comply to Google's and other relevant
> coding practices and be accepted by Google engineers), and only become
> part of official releases if they make it through Google's scrutiny.
> At the moment, there are 3 mailing lists set up to publicly discuss
> the various aspects of the Android Open-Source Project:
> -If you're a reader, you should be posting to the android-porting mailing list.
> -If you're a writer, you should be posting to the android-kernel
> mailing list (if you intend to contribute to the kernel) or to the
> android-platform mailing list (f you intend to contribute to
> user-space).
> As a side note, if you're not sure which mailing list to post to,
> please don't cross-post. If you happen to post to the wrong mailing
> list, people there will direct you to the best mailing list.
> Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private
> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further
> warning.
