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On stabilityOn stabilityPosted Sep 9, 2010 22:52 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: On stability by roelofs Parent article: Debian squeezes out Chromium
look at it this way. Google has a master plan for its Chrome browser that quite frankly does not include the needs of other linux distributions or their users. Chromium the project has a codebase which is the leading edge of that plan for Chrome the product.
Do you really think that ChromeOS is going to have a browser with this sort of rate of churn? The rapid rate of development for Chromium right now has a lot to do with Google's overall plan for its own product line. They have real consumer device targets in mind for Chrome and ChromeOS and what you are seeing is the development run-up towards very specific end-goals.
Lets face it, other linux distributions are not the target audience and are not driving the development curve. But the development curve does make sense if you look at stable ChromeOS deployments as the end goal for the rapid development push that is going on now with Chromium. We can get as mad as we want about the reality of that, and its not going to make any difference at all.
-jef
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On stability Posted Sep 10, 2010 15:24 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link]
> Do you really think that ChromeOS is going to have a browser with this
> sort of rate of churn?
Yes. Look at the Nexus One, that has had ~4 download and reboot OS upgrades in the 6 months I've had it.
Release engineering and stability is something old people talk about.
On stability Posted Sep 10, 2010 16:57 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Which version of Android are you running? 2.1 as originally shipped or did you upgrade to 2.2?
On stability Posted Sep 10, 2010 21:03 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link]
2.2 now, I guess. I bought it in Feb. and hit the update button whenever it told me to (which, as I said, is like 4 times).
The apps. on it are even worse, it was a significant timesaver when the last OS update now allowed me to turn automatic updates on for them.
On stability Posted Sep 10, 2010 18:31 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
> Release engineering and stability is something old people talk about.
True! I nominate this for a quote of the week.
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