[TouchPad Development] Leoisright:
ok guys...it's been quite a few good days for the touchpad community and android open source world.

We are all familiar with CM and Evervolv and the magic they bring to all the devices. Certainly a lot of you may not understand how much they bring to phones but I do. And it's a tremendous amount.

Most may already know that we were planning and are building from source aosp. This has a huge advantage with only some setbacks. The advantage of having CM and Evervolv fork off communication to one another is a huge step for us. Also, this will provide exactly what Dalingrin was saying before. True open source mentality.

It's not who does what first, it's more about you guys getting the best support when something is released. With CM opening up source, allows all of us to review source and help make commits to fix the smaller bugs.

For example, static wallpaper. We knew that by changing numbers on the build.prop we could get the wallpaper to work. Tommy figured it out that it was the dalvik heap size not being set in the build.prop. Instead of just changing the build.prop, he was able to change it in source to call for the correct settings to be placed in the build.prop. Then, he was able to submit it to the gerrit for preludedrew to review and commit the changes. Now when we repo from source, it will automatically have the correct settings be placed in there when we go to compile. This may sound confusing but it really isn't.

This is what Dalingrin was referring to. We need to work together on small and large problems to help figure out the problem, then change it in the source so we all can see the problem disappear.

This is fantastic news for the entire community. We all believe in breaking down the walls of communication. Little did we each know, the other person was just as interested in this. This is why it's important we stop the us vs. them talks in all threads. Not only in xda and rootzwiki, but also in the irc channels.

It would be foolish for me to sit here and say anything bad about great developers as much as them saying I can't bring anything to the table. Well, I may not have the ability to write lib files or bins, but certainly understand scripting, base building, porting,ramdisk edits, team building, and init.d scripts enough to make a lot of roms run much better and smoother or why is ther 810,000 views on this thread and over 50,000 downloads? And certainly CM team and Evervolv are much higher in some cases. The bigger questions should be, why weren't we all working together from the beginning?

Now that we have source working better, we can see better things.

So this is all I ask. Be kind, don't ask for eta's, or go start threads of why should you run our rom over Evervolvs or CM, or the other way around, but to read the OP, the read 20 pages before you ask a question to make sure it isn't answered, to be polite, to not troll. To be a community where Dalingrin will feel welcome to answer questions in here as much as I in his in rootzwiki. Don't push us with dumb questions or you will hear "no support given" attitudes.

So I leave these next steps up to you. Are you going to be appreciative, buy the developers a beer (yes, all of them) and say thanks for spending hundreds of hours working on roms to make my $100 tablet eat iPads for breakfast, OR are you gonna troll and think you can bring us to our knees. (hint, the later will never happen)

Peace out

~leo