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>ensure platform stability for the ecosystem Aka "We will do less releases because certain OEMs don't want to be seen as outdated as they don't want to spend t
by charcircuit 10mo ago
>ensure platform stability for the ecosystem
Aka "We will do less releases because certain OEMs don't want to be seen as outdated as they don't want to spend the resources to rebase even 4 times per year."
- fluidcruft 10mo agoWell it does prevent them from shipping things prematurely. I guess.
- charcircuit 10mo agoThey can still ship play services and their own apps at a faster cadence.
- fluidcruft 10mo agoI meant OEMs rushing the gun on new features that aren't fully baked. That probably does add support burden. (I don't know if it happens anymore but it used to be a problem on the OEM forks)
- Groxx 10mo agoThey push half-baked stuff all the time anyway, I don't think this meaningfully affects that frequency.
- gitttnwmrlg 10mo agoWell, now they can only ship half baked stuff twice a year.
- charcircuit 10mo agoThey should at least be shipping monthly updates with the months security updates. Well some months have not had any since Google is now trying to batch them to be quarterly because OEMs couldn't keep up with monthly security fixes.
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- dvdkon 10mo agoThat's not clear to me: Will they do fewer releases, or will they have the same quarterly release cadence as now, just with only every second release open source?
- charcircuit 10mo agoI would assume the Q1 and Q3 quarterly releases are going away altogether.
- ASinclair 10mo agoThey are not.