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Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases.

stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

It’s not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don’t think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It means my GrapheneOS updates will probably he a little later.

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- CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  And yet Graphene will still probably need more private and secure
  
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- fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  How so? If Graphene is based off a release branch, there shouldn’t be change in timing. Sure, maybe a little for inspection, but as far as I know Graphene isn’t based off main anyway.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They currently get early access in some capacity, and I wonder if this would impact that.
    
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  - pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    How so?
    
    Developers routinely read along with upstream updates that are relevant to them.
    
    Google is removing this access.
    
    Google is specifically removing access to read along with upstream updates that are relevant to the developers of GrapheneOS.
    
    At minimum, this will slow down GrapheneOS releases and increase bugs in GrapheneOS.
    
    At worst this week cause a new malicious anti-privacy “feature” to ship with GrapheneOS because there’s no time to analyze how to remove it.
    
    It’s almost like Google hates Privacy or something…
    
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