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Ask HN: Significant commit rate decline of Android's base repository?

28 points by Flowdalic ↗ HN
Starting Q3 2015 the commit rate of this central Android component dropped significantly. See https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/graphs/contributors

What happened?

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veeti
Most of the development happens behind closed doors. The AOSP repositories/public branches are updated after the release comes out.
realrocker
Not sure. Several of high change frequency components from telephony were moved to platform/packages. Also Google has probably not dumped the latest changes yet.
hackuser
> Several of high change frequency components from telephony were moved to platform/packages

What does this mean? The phone manufacturers handle it now? Is platform/packages not open source?

realrocker
platform/packages is open source, but I guess the split is done so that the manufacturers can ship their own versions of these components. Also I guess manufacturers are more responsible for these components now.
Spoom
Google Play Services (a closed source, Google-copyrighted component) has been slowly eating more and more of the stuff that was previously handled by AOSP.