[johnnygood]

I find it a little odd that an open source project seems so opaque. Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be no concrete news on Android 2.3. This article says that Nexus one devices will get 2.3 in the next few days. However, TechCrunch doesn't have anything under their "android" tag talking about 2.3 before that (http://techcrunch.com/tag/android/). One would think there would be a better flow of information - that it would be easier to follow this. It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

I'm not criticizing Google or anyone, but it just seems weird that something that is so high profile and open-source barely has rumor-level information available about its development.

[dminor]

Unfortunately this is standard operating procedure for Android. The source is open, but the development process is not.

[ergo98]

>It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

Join the Open Handset Alliance if you want an inside track. That's the group that develops it.

Android is not in any way open in the same sense as the Linux Kernel is, for instance. Google is the main contributor, and they tend to contribute in massive chunks, primarily when a new version drops.

It's more akin to MySQL's open source edition, where in no way do you know what the core team is really planning or doing until they pull a shocker.