Issue 66 in omaha: Google Omaha is dead

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New issue 66 by kobalicek.petr: Google Omaha is dead
https://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=66

I think that this project is no longer open-source or it's using completely
different model than other Google projects. The latest release is more than
3 years old, bugs are not fixed, and patches not applied (I sent only minor
ones, mostly to fix tests when rebranding for use in another product).

I know there is an internal (and much newer/fixed) version Google is using
for its own products, but I really wonder why this project is still here
and pretends that it's a working updater, while it's not. Everybody who
tried to use Omaha knows that it's really difficult to make it working (all
the rebranding issues, fixing tests with hardcoded google strings and
servers, dependencies on really archaic tools like VS2005, no server
implementation for testing, ...).

So my questions:

1. Why there is not a newer version of Omaha as it was promised, but never
delivered?
2. Why the development is not public like other Google projects?
3. If Omaha was only released to show that GoogleUpdate is not doing
anything wrong, how can I believe that if the development was just one-shot
source code drop?

PS: I don't use this project anymore. The reason I ask is that the official
GoogleUpdate is crashing on two machines I use, I just wonder what happened
with this, initially promising, project...

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Comment #1 on issue 66 by so...@chromium.org: Google Omaha is dead
https://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=66

I agree with the remarks made above. The short answer to the questions
above is that it takes effort to run an open source project and actually
ship code off it. Google can do it with Chromium. We thought it would be
practical to do code drops to open source, unfortunately that process did
not work.

[om...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 66 by eland...@appirio.com: Google Omaha is dead
https://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=66

So is Chromium responsible for Omaha now? Or is Google responsible for
Omaha?

[om...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 66 by so...@chromium.org: Google Omaha is dead
https://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=66

Google is responsible for Omaha but some developers work on both Omaha and
Chromium.