From XDA & the Moderators What this New Forum Is

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Here is Our new forum.

XDA, the moderators and the powers that be.... have been wrestling with trying to differentiate the Difference between the Code-writing Development and the Quasi-developers that use rom cooking tools or are just porting roms.

To that end we will be going through the development threads in the next couple of weeks and moving the appropriate threads that meet the original code requirement to be placed in this new forum.

Please bear in mind that this is a "Work in Progress" and will take a bit of time to hone and perfect what goes where.

Also, please understand that this does not mean that some developers are on some special pedestal. That is not the case.

I will use an analogy to explain:
A music composer writes an original piece of music. The music composition may be awesome... but his performance of it, may not.
Such often is the case in developers..... often someone comes up with a awesome idea or new code application, but it often ends up being perfected by the use of others putting their creative spin on it.
That is the beauty of The Android Platform and ....XDA provides a fertile field for all to share ideas and collectively improve our experience.

Additionally, we need to provide and track the proper credit to the original code writing Developer and better comply with the GPL requirements of Android......

I hope this clarifys the potential questions

Thanks from the Moderators

~~~ (oka1)~~~

I though this forum is for all the Samsung original/stock roms

TL;DR version.

Stuff you've made. Pure AOSP ROM's you've built from sauce. Or a AOKP ROM you've buildt.
"Cooked" ROMs, like taking a TouchWiz ROM and just adding some APKs etc is not original developement.

So does my Asylum ICS count as original? Since every version is built from source? And then modified to my liking?

Originally Posted by antiochasylum

So does my Asylum ICS count as original? Since every version is built from source? And then modified to my liking?

AFAIK, Asylum will be considered as a cooked ROM with AOKP/CM9 as the base

Saw this sometime back in HOX forums and liked the idea. Glad it's here in Note's forums too. If not anything, it will make the development forum a less pain to search, at least it was for me. Now I can look up to the original ROMs here, and their derivatives in the other section. Cool enough!

FIRRST!!!

Ah shoot!
Liking this idea, but it means an extra click for my daily routine, heh

This should be labelled "AOSP ROMs" and the other "TouchWizz ROMs" for better clarification.

Good to see a separate forum. Now it is well organized and less cluttered.

Originally Posted by parthpatels007

AFAIK, Asylum will be considered as a cooked ROM with AOKP/CM9 as the base

IMHO - any ROM or kernel built from source should be in original development.

I mean, with parth's logic, CM9 isn't original development as it uses AOSP as base...

Originally Posted by nickshertzer

IMHO - any ROM or kernel built from source should be in original development.

I mean, with parth's logic, CM9 isn't original development as it uses AOSP as base...

^lol good point there