Any post-mortem on why the AOSP transition to Bazel was cancelled?

[Gergely Kis]

Dear Bazel Community,

After a few years of not working on AOSP based projects, I wanted to try out the new Bazel build, which (according to my predictions) should have been in a usable state by now.

So I was very surprised when I saw the short message on source.android.com that the Bazel build transition was cancelled.

I have seen at least some of the AOSP team members post on this list, so I was hoping to learn more about why the transition was stopped.

Were there technical issues with Bazel that made it a bad fit for AOSP?

Or were there some other not necessarily technical challenges (e.g. the Bazel based build could not offer enough advantages for the developers over the current Soong + Kati + Ninja based setup)?

Can we expect a post-mortem talk at BazelCon 2024?

Thank you for any information that you can share.

Kind regards,

Gergely

[Edbert Chan]

It looks like banners around source.android.com say now that the migration is halted, not canceled.

But I do recall before that the banner did say that the project was cancelled.

My guess is lack of funding.

[Lukács T. Berki]

Gergely is right: the migration has been cancelled.

Android chose not to continue with its migration to Bazel due to a review of Android business priorities, not due to shortcomings of Bazel or Android itself. 

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