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Google Omaha is dead #66

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think that this project is no longer open-source or it's using completely 
different model than other Google projects. The latest release is more than 3 
years old, bugs are not fixed, and patches not applied (I sent only minor ones, 
mostly to fix tests when rebranding for use in another product).

I know there is an internal (and much newer/fixed) version Google is using for 
its own products, but I really wonder why this project is still here and 
pretends that it's a working updater, while it's not. Everybody who tried to 
use Omaha knows that it's really difficult to make it working (all the 
rebranding issues, fixing tests with hardcoded google strings and servers, 
dependencies on really archaic tools like VS2005, no server implementation for 
testing, ...).

So my questions:

1. Why there is not a newer version of Omaha as it was promised, but never 
delivered?
2. Why the development is not public like other Google projects?
3. If Omaha was only released to show that GoogleUpdate is not doing anything 
wrong, how can I believe that if the development was just one-shot source code 
drop?

PS: I don't use this project anymore. The reason I ask is that the official 
GoogleUpdate is crashing on two machines I use, I just wonder what happened 
with this, initially promising, project...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kobalicek.petr on 8 Sep 2014 at 3:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I agree with the remarks made above. The short answer to the questions above is 
that it takes effort to run an open source project and actually ship code off 
it. Google can do it with Chromium. We thought it would be practical to do code 
drops to open source, unfortunately that process did not work.

Original comment by so...@chromium.org on 8 Oct 2014 at 11:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
So is Chromium responsible for Omaha now? Or is Google responsible for Omaha?

Original comment by eland...@appirio.com on 17 Dec 2014 at 4:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Google is responsible for Omaha but some developers work on both Omaha and 
Chromium.

Original comment by so...@chromium.org on 29 Dec 2014 at 11:52