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ITT: People making assumptions based off the tagline without reading the article

Basically not much changes, they’re just gonna wait to post their code until it’s done instead of letting it be viewed in progress

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iarigby@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a huge change. Reviewing one years’ worth of code at once is practically impossible, this significantly reduces the chances of a third party spotting malicious changes in the code.

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- ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release
  
  Here’s their previous strategy: web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/…/codelines
  
  Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals
  
  When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree
  
  The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.
  
  We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.
  
  As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away
  
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  - iarigby@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    oh, got it, thanks. feel so bad about people having read my incorrect comment haha
    
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oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Meh, reasonable. Thanks for posting the clarification.

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