Comment Re:Article misses the point (Score 1) 579
Or are you advocating now that Google goes back and releases an update that dramatically changes and breaks components of 2.x?
Of course not.
What they should do, is to mimic all other companies which take development processes and security seriously:
cd ~/src/android-repo/
git co android-2.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
git co android-3.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
git co android-4.0.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
git co android-4.1.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
git co android-4.2.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
git co android-4.3.x
<fix the shit>
make all
make test
make release
git cm -a
They have to repeat it for all the 4.x branched, because the idiots managed to make API breaking changes there. In literally every point release.
Then, they should send the changes to the OEMs, organize press conference, and announce that they did everything they could - the OEMs are tag now.