Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by ZenoArrow on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:22PM (#14044316)

If code quality is an issue, at least people who want an open-source phone OS can work on fixes:

https://source.tizen.org/

I don't see many other options emerging. It's possible that a community-led effort to finish work on Unity 8 (and possibly port it to Wayland) may emerge, but that would only solve the phone UI issue, the main problem holding back open-source phones is likely to be closed bootloaders and lack of drivers. By supporting Tizen we can get Samsung to handle the low level stuff.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by rrdharan on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:45PM (#14044964)

Doesn't really help that there's a source website if there's not a sane process for actually submitting PRs and merging patches, and apparently there isn't one.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by ZenoArrow on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:51PM (#14045974)

>"and apparently there isn't one."

https://source.tizen.org/documentation/developer-guide/getti...

"This document provides information about how to contribute code to Tizen, including the following:

    * Cloning over SSH
    * Submit a patch to the Gerrit
    * Review a patch on the Gerrit
    * Submit a package to the build system
    * Review and accept a package on the build server (for release engineer only)

For more information about the whole work process, please refer to Tizen Development Working Mechanism."

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