First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It

Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by swetland on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:55PM (#14379289)

I'd suggest that it's possible we're using simple, but functional placeholder implementations of things so the entire system can boot and run, and then various parts of it can be worked on at various paces, in parallel, etc.

Lot of moving parts in a kernel, or OS, and one could try to write all of them in their final form first and hope they all work together when done, or one could take a more incremental approach.

Personally, I think the evolution of the general kernel design / syscall interface, love it or hate it, is more interesting than have we optimized the timer implementation yet...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/conce... https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/sysca...

(It's all a work in progress, which has been and will continue to evolve)

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by Ajedi32 on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:59PM (#14379316)

(For context, swetland is currently the main contributer to Magenta, Fuchsia's kernel: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/graphs/contributor...)

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by swetland on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:02PM (#14379337)

The stats are a little unfair there, as I've done a lot of rearranging and housecleaning, which tends to inflate github's scoreboards. I suspect more of my work is outside the kernel than in (driver model/hosting/managing, userspace core glue, etc), but certainly I'm to blame for a reasonable chunk of kernel code too.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by mckillop on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:44PM (#14380156)

I also encourage anyone that sees something that could be done better to sign up and submit some code!

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by tyingq on Friday May 19, 2017 @08:53PM (#14380409)

I suspect some are holding back since there's not been much shared about the end purpose. At the moment there's still speculation as to whether it's for mobile devices, desktops, both, or something else.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by kuschku on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:40AM (#14417975)

That would be a lot easier if it were GPL with no CLA.

The way it currently is, it looks like something Google will develop with the help of the FLOSS community, and then take the code, close it, and continue everything else in the dark.

As they’ve done with most parts of Android by now.

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