Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 4:39 PM
This morning at 8 AM Pacific, I had the joy of participating in the Android release. If you've been following along, you'll have seen how excited we've been - and are - to publish millions of lines of code to the outside world.
Well, the number just went up by six more lines. It's a small start, but knowing that we accepted our first patch from a contributor external to the Open Handset Alliance just 4.5 hours after unveiling the code reinforces to me why open sourcing this is exactly the right thing to do.
Happy Hacking. =)
(Update: I just checked, and we're up to 5 accepted patches from 8 submitted. Way cool.)
2 comments:
This is a huge deal, guys! I've been cautiously optimistic about Android, hoping that when the source release came, you guys would Do The Right Thing and run it as much like a community-driven project as possible. Based on what I've read at http://source.android.com/ , and on this latest progress, you really did it!
I knew Robert Love would never lie to me. ;-) I asked him about this at LRL USA and his response was basically "trust me, we'll do it right".
It's certainly a challenge to get this sort of thing right. Thanks for the support!
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