Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model
'Fuchsia is a long-term project to create a general-purpose, open source operating system, and today we are expanding Fuchsia's open source model to welcome contributions from the public. Fuchsia is designed to prioritize security, updatability, and performance, and is currently under active development by the Fuchsia team. We have been developing Fuchsia in the open, in our git repository for the last four years. You can browse the repository history at fuchsia.googlesource.com to see how Fuchsia has evolved over time. We are laying this foundation from the kernel up to make it easier to create long-lasting, secure products and experiences. Starting today, we are expanding Fuchsia's open source model to make it easier for the public to engage with the project. We have created new public mailing lists for project discussions, added a governance model to clarify how strategic decisions are made, and opened up the issue tracker for public contributors to see what's being worked on. As an open source effort, we welcome high-quality, well-tested contributions from all. There is now a process to become a member to submit patches, or a committer with full write access. In addition, we are also publishing a technical roadmap for Fuchsia to provide better insights for project direction and priorities. Some of the highlights of the roadmap are working on a driver framework for updating the kernel independently of the drivers, improving file systems for performance, and expanding the input pipeline for accessibility.' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/12/08/2048257 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:54:51 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'... today we are expanding Fuchsia's open source model to welcome contributions from the public.'
An alternative view <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/googles-secretive-fuchsia-os-is-open-for-contributions/>: Google says it has "been developing Fuchsia in the open, in our git repository for the last four years." That's not quite how I would describe the development process. After we compiled Fuchsia and got it running on a Pixelbook, the Fuchsia team scrubbed the repo of the user interface. I would guess Fuchsia has a similar setup to Android, with a public-facing repository full of the bits Google is willing to disclose, and a private repo where all the interesting stuff happens. Either that or Google has done zero interface work in the last two years, and Fuchsia development is slower than anyone was expecting—I don't see any user interface code in the repo. There is a public bug tracker, but many of the bugs are labeled "Restrict-View-Google" and are not visible to non-employees.
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:54:51 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Fuchsia is a long-term project to create a general-purpose, open source operating system'
Another report <https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/googles_fucshia_operating_system/>: The new OS has a user interface based on Flutter, the cross-platform framework that targets Android, iOS, web, Windows and macOS. Except that tying the GUI into the OS is a concept belonging to platforms still stuck in the 1990s.
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