Add Android Workgroup charter and membership list #925
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CC: @aabewhite, @andriydruk, @finagolfin, @threeve, @Joannis, @lhoward, @marcprux, @Obbut, @compnerd |
| The Android Workgroup will: | ||
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| * Coordinate the development of a reference Swift Android SDK | ||
| * Improve and maintain Android support for the official Swift distribution, eliminating the need for out-of-tree or downstream forks |
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Is anybody actually doing this? I think in-tree support is pretty good now, with downstream mostly just applying a few patches, ie nobody is maintaining an actual fork to my knowledge.
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Agreed that I don't know of anyone currently doing this. This specific point was requested by the PSG. I suspect – and perhaps one of them might confirm – that the goal is for the official Android SDK to be sufficiently adaptable to multiple Android environments (smartphone, embedded, car, TV. etc.) so as to make it unnecessary for a fork to have be created to support such an environment.
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As far as I know, nobody has ever tried Swift on anything other than Android smartphones, so if those other Android environments require more work, nobody has even started on that.
I suggest you change "forks" to "patches", as that more accurately characterizes where the Android platform support is today for the dominant smartphone usecase, ie nobody has needed a fork in awhile.
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@etcwilde You should probably look over this also. |
Motivation:
From the discussion at https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-android-working-group/77780/25 and in messages with @al45tair, this PR adds the Android WG charter for review by the Core Team and eventual publication to swift.org.
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Result:
The Android Workgroup charter and membership will be published to swift.org