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Huawei is spamming open source community for its Harmony ecosystem (See Comment)

67 points by fernvenue 1y ago

fernvenue 1y ago
Don't know why the link broken, so here's the link I want to submit: https://github.com/search?q=%22Proposal%20for%20OpenHarmony%20Adaptation%20of%22&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=%22Proposal%20for%20OpenHarmony%...
- mikaco 1y ago
  Huawei is spamming Chinese language issues to pollute repos they eager to control. https://github.com/search?q=%22%E9%B8%BF%E8%92%99%E5%8C%96%22&type=issues&s=created&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=%22%E9%B8%BF%E8%92%99%E5%8C%96%2...
stop50 1y ago
If someone thinks the issues are bad, the pullrequests are worse. Everything is duplicated under an "OpenHarmony" directory plus a bunch of useless files.
- alexey-salmin 1y ago
  Any idea what is the intended purpose? I mean, assuming good faith (which is not granted but plausible) how would this help them to build their distro.
  - ValtteriL 1y ago
    They will get visibility. Having a lot of OSS that officially support HarmonyOS make it look more credible alternative. This is a spammy, astroturfy way of promotion. That I don't like. But I like having options.
  - foul 1y ago
    Sometimes it honours in a shitty way licenses like the GPLs, otherwise it's just cheap advertising for the early adopters.
- ronyclau 1y ago
  Here's an example. This is the PR they created in lodash's GitHub repo: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980 https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980
- StopDisinfo910 1y ago
  I was tempted to defend them on the basis of the issues but, gosh, are the PRs bad. On top of the duplication, the added files are somehow commented in Mandarin.
suraci 1y ago
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zerosizedweasle 1y ago
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Disposal8433 1y ago
I like small details like the fake labels "Enhancement, Compatibility, Cross-platform" at the bottom of the issue to show that they don't take time fill those issues properly. If you look at the PRs, you can see a shitshow where one unique commit dumps everything without any explanation, and where they duplicate the code of each library for no reason. Employees spamming projects with bad code shows that Huawei is a bad company. Shame.
- bestouff 1y ago
  I think it shows they didn't learn how to do it yet. Western companies had the same problem at first, now some of them know how to upstream a change. Huawei will learn to be a good citizen - they have to.
  - expnkx 1y ago
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pogue 1y ago
Is HarmonyOS available somewhere? Can I install it on my laptop and try it out?
- overflowcat 1y ago
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- aspenmayer 1y ago
  via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenHarmony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenHarmony https://gitee.com/openharmony https://gitee.com/openharmony https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overview.md https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overvi... (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516085148/https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overview.md https://web.archive.org/web/20250516085148/https://docs.open... ) https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/OpenHarmony-v5.1.0-release.md/ https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/O... (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516084749/https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/OpenHarmony-v5.1.0-release.md/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250516084749/https://docs.open... ) https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516091320/https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250516091320/https://repo.huaw... )
  - expnkx 1y ago
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garylkz 1y ago
To be fair, it's their freedom to create a proposal to any author they want, and it's also the author's freedom to reject the PR. But to be honest, even if the author rejects it, what will happen is most likely them forking the repo and make changes on top of it.
- yorwba 1y ago
  The issues mostly link to repositories that were created more than a year ago. So I think what happened is that they already forked the repo and made changes on top of it to get it to work on HarmonyOS, but there was no bandwidth for ongoing maintenance. Someone finally realized that this is unsustainable and demanded that the changes get upstreamed, but the people charged with implementing this directive don't know how you upstream changes. Hence this hamfisted attempt.
- mort96 1y ago
  Most hits aren't even PRs, just issues requesting the repo maintainer to support HarmonyOS.
  - new_user_final 1y ago
    I hope you can read English.
    - mort96 1y ago
      I can, do you have a point you wanted to make?
aitchnyu 1y ago
Umm, if we do not assume malice or imcompetence, why would they need to adapt js libraries for an OS?
- procles 1y ago
  They have their own dialect of TS, they maybe changed something in a way that breaks compatibility.
rhzdgaf 1y ago
Best reply to the PRs is What's OpenHarmony? Isn't that China's spyware in 5G towers that caused Covid?
StopDisinfo910 1y ago
I don't think that can be considered spamming. Apparently, there is a push by Huawei to try to upstream some of the adaptation they have done and test cases they have written so that some libraries are usable on their OS called OpenHarmony. For reasons which are obscure to me, Huawei has apparently decided to open proposal issues before submitting the actual PRs. Honestly, it's not like they are asking much more than a "yes, we are interested" or "no, we aren't". People here would probably be congratulating the company on its effort to be more open source oriented if it wasn't a Chinese one.
xnhbx 1y ago
Discussion on Chinese developer forum. Many are also enraged: https://v2ex.com/t/1131883 https://v2ex.com/t/1131883
pizofreude 1y ago
Well, if the US can spam ban hammer and promote monopoly, Huawei can defo use freedom of speech and expression to voice out their ecosystem freely.

67 points by fernvenue 1y ago

Don't know why the link broken, so here's the link I want to submit: https://github.com/search?q=%22Proposal%20for%20OpenHarmony%20Adaptation%20of%22&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=%22Proposal%20for%20OpenHarmony%...

mikaco 1y ago
Huawei is spamming Chinese language issues to pollute repos they eager to control. https://github.com/search?q=%22%E9%B8%BF%E8%92%99%E5%8C%96%22&type=issues&s=created&o=desc https://github.com/search?q=%22%E9%B8%BF%E8%92%99%E5%8C%96%2...

stop50 1y ago

If someone thinks the issues are bad, the pullrequests are worse. Everything is duplicated under an "OpenHarmony" directory plus a bunch of useless files.

alexey-salmin 1y ago
Any idea what is the intended purpose? I mean, assuming good faith (which is not granted but plausible) how would this help them to build their distro.
- ValtteriL 1y ago
  They will get visibility. Having a lot of OSS that officially support HarmonyOS make it look more credible alternative. This is a spammy, astroturfy way of promotion. That I don't like. But I like having options.
- foul 1y ago
  Sometimes it honours in a shitty way licenses like the GPLs, otherwise it's just cheap advertising for the early adopters.
ronyclau 1y ago
Here's an example. This is the PR they created in lodash's GitHub repo: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980 https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980
StopDisinfo910 1y ago
I was tempted to defend them on the basis of the issues but, gosh, are the PRs bad. On top of the duplication, the added files are somehow commented in Mandarin.

suraci 1y ago

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zerosizedweasle 1y ago

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Disposal8433 1y ago

I like small details like the fake labels "Enhancement, Compatibility, Cross-platform" at the bottom of the issue to show that they don't take time fill those issues properly. If you look at the PRs, you can see a shitshow where one unique commit dumps everything without any explanation, and where they duplicate the code of each library for no reason. Employees spamming projects with bad code shows that Huawei is a bad company. Shame.

bestouff 1y ago
I think it shows they didn't learn how to do it yet. Western companies had the same problem at first, now some of them know how to upstream a change. Huawei will learn to be a good citizen - they have to.
- expnkx 1y ago
  [dead]

pogue 1y ago

Is HarmonyOS available somewhere? Can I install it on my laptop and try it out?

overflowcat 1y ago
[dead]
aspenmayer 1y ago
via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenHarmony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenHarmony https://gitee.com/openharmony https://gitee.com/openharmony https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overview.md https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overvi... (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516085148/https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/en/OpenHarmony-Overview.md https://web.archive.org/web/20250516085148/https://docs.open... ) https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/OpenHarmony-v5.1.0-release.md/ https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/O... (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516084749/https://docs.openharmony.cn/pages/v5.1/zh-cn/release-notes/OpenHarmony-v5.1.0-release.md/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250516084749/https://docs.open... ) https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ (ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516091320/https://repo.huaweicloud.com/openharmony/os/5.1.0-Release/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250516091320/https://repo.huaw... )
- expnkx 1y ago
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garylkz 1y ago

To be fair, it's their freedom to create a proposal to any author they want, and it's also the author's freedom to reject the PR. But to be honest, even if the author rejects it, what will happen is most likely them forking the repo and make changes on top of it.

yorwba 1y ago
The issues mostly link to repositories that were created more than a year ago. So I think what happened is that they already forked the repo and made changes on top of it to get it to work on HarmonyOS, but there was no bandwidth for ongoing maintenance. Someone finally realized that this is unsustainable and demanded that the changes get upstreamed, but the people charged with implementing this directive don't know how you upstream changes. Hence this hamfisted attempt.
mort96 1y ago
Most hits aren't even PRs, just issues requesting the repo maintainer to support HarmonyOS.
- new_user_final 1y ago
  I hope you can read English.
  - mort96 1y ago
    I can, do you have a point you wanted to make?

aitchnyu 1y ago

Umm, if we do not assume malice or imcompetence, why would they need to adapt js libraries for an OS?

procles 1y ago
They have their own dialect of TS, they maybe changed something in a way that breaks compatibility.

rhzdgaf 1y ago

Best reply to the PRs is What's OpenHarmony? Isn't that China's spyware in 5G towers that caused Covid?

StopDisinfo910 1y ago

I don't think that can be considered spamming. Apparently, there is a push by Huawei to try to upstream some of the adaptation they have done and test cases they have written so that some libraries are usable on their OS called OpenHarmony. For reasons which are obscure to me, Huawei has apparently decided to open proposal issues before submitting the actual PRs. Honestly, it's not like they are asking much more than a "yes, we are interested" or "no, we aren't". People here would probably be congratulating the company on its effort to be more open source oriented if it wasn't a Chinese one.

xnhbx 1y ago

Discussion on Chinese developer forum. Many are also enraged: https://v2ex.com/t/1131883 https://v2ex.com/t/1131883

pizofreude 1y ago

Well, if the US can spam ban hammer and promote monopoly, Huawei can defo use freedom of speech and expression to voice out their ecosystem freely.