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by seba_dos1 1402 days ago
Each AOSP version is just a big code drop from Google. It's really far away in the spirit. Not even talking about how difficult it is to patch some component as a user.
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morepork 1401 days ago
No it's not, AOSP is developed in the open. Directed by Google sure, but not just a code drop every release.

Check out the current PRs in gerrit: https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/status:open+-is:wi...

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seba_dos1 1401 days ago
I have taken a look at random git repo that seemed important enough: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core.git

There's about 5% of commits made by people with e-mail domain different than google.com, android.com or chromium.org (6% if you count the last one too).

Pretty much the same result on another one: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.gi...

Do you get to see the code of yet unreleased versions of Android? Sure, they do accept some patches, but "developed in the open" doesn't seem to describe their development model.

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