AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 16, 2010 15:19 UTC (Tue) by xxiao (guest, #9631)
In reply to: AMD joins MeeGo by teknohog
Parent article: AMD joins MeeGo

Android may not be as upstream as you like, but I can 'git clone && make' and begin to work quickly(adding a new platform).

Meego? I read the wiki a few times and still failed to build it, it's not straightforward to me at least.

Plus I wish Meego had chosen maemo's debian way instead of rpm/opensuse.

well, best luck, meego.

AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 26, 2010 20:24 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (4 responses)

Yeah it's nice that you can get the latest development android version and build it. Wait, no, it's not available, it's being developed in secred. !Fail.

MeeGo is developed in the open, entirely, AND they have a strong upstream-first policy (very much unlike Android). None of that matters to end users, but it does matter to Free Software. So I care and so do most reading LWN. Or they should.

Besides, if you want to try MeeGo, the stable release IS easy to get - just grab the binaries ;-)

AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 26, 2010 20:33 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (3 responses)

Really? Where's the upstream driver for the video hardware in any of the non-netbook Meego devices?

AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 27, 2010 17:10 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (2 responses)

Oh, so because the video drivers of mobile phones are pretty much never open you would say Android development is just as open as MeeGo. Sure, sure...

AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 27, 2010 17:17 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

No, I'm saying that "Upstream first" simply isn't true. "Upstream eventually", maybe, but not "Upstream first".

AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 27, 2010 17:24 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

The policy is indeed not a black-and-white upstream-first. The GOAL is upstream first, and code is not accepted into MeeGo if there is not at least a patch being reviewed by upstream. Again, it is not black and white, there is some wiggly room - as there should be. None the less, this policy is entirely different from the way Android does it's business.