With the departure of
Steve Kondik Cyanogen Inc, we knew it would be a major upheaval with the
CyanogenMod has been tampered with. An official blog announced that the servers
and the funds held in the CM post would be abolished on 31 December. Then,
seemingly out of nowhere, the CyanogenMod website, wiki, forums, Gerrit and the
download servers were all closed because of a change in their DNS.
As mentioned, it was
expected to take place on Dec. 31, but he came six days earlier as a Christmas
surprise for the community. Fortunately, people do not wait until the last
minute to start filing things that existed. You can find an archive of CM wiki
here, and an archive of the latest snapshot build here. At the time, leaving
the other resources such as forums, Gerrit and servers of the site down.
While LineageOS always
trying to put together, they could raise their own Gerrit server now. For those
who do not know, Gerrit allows a team of developers to announce the changes
they would like made to the code base. These changes can be seen by other group
members, and they can all comment on it too. Thus, before a fault has been
corrected, or a new feature is implemented, other developers to review it and
decide if they feel that it would be a conflict. It also gives people who are
outside of the development team a way to see what kind of changes (provided it
is published). Even if you or I can view the recent changes that occur with
LineageOS now.
We can see which commitments are still open, which merged and
abandoned. While CyanogenMod as a whole may have met a fiasco on vacation,
there are still a number of people are still working on the new code base for
LineageOS In a post on the official blog CyanogenMod, we learn that the current
status of Cyanogen means that it is no longer possible continue and that the
best way forward requires a change. No one should be surprised by the recent
events in the parent company Cyanogen inc. And today announces that it has
reached the end of the road and close to the business.
Put some obstacles in
front of the community-driven CM that can not be skipped when you take the
heritage name and structure. Servers and infrastructure will soon disappear, no
one is at the helm to lead the way forward and the same name Cyanogen himself
available to the right bidder. Cyanogen CyanogenMod was, Inc. A vacuum at the
top will not work.
However, the CM always
been more than the name and the infrastructure. CM has been successful in the
same spirit, ingenuity and effort of their individual employees - back when it
was Kondik in his house, now there are thousands of former and current employees.
But the ideas behind
the CM is not dead. The latest version was published and updated regularly
patches Android security bulletin and source Mountains are split into something
new - Android Lineage Distribution.
Android Lineage use
whatever CM did to build a better alternative to basic phone manufacturers
software. Even more important than the code and software matched eight of CM
built minds of people who want to do something different and better. And he is
living under a new name with a new future.
See CM saying goodbye
is difficult. They were here in one way or another since the beginning and we
did reach both the ups and downs that come with any long journey. They embody
the spirit of what Android is when you scratch the dollar signs and businesses
and make it about us. Users, builders, dreamers. We centimeters. We lose a
small part of us today.
But we can rejoice in
the future with Linage project and do all we can to keep these dreams and this
living spirit. For all participants, we wish you the best. Let us know how we
can help you.
The official Gerrit LineageOS is now
Gerrit(Software)
"Gerrit is a collaborative team tool
code based on the free web. Software developers in a team can see changes from
each to their source code using a web browser and accept or reject those
changes. It integrates a distributed version control system in close
collaboration with Git."
As mentioned, it was supposed to
take place on December 31, but it came six days earlier as a Christmas surprise
for the community. Fortunately, you do not wait until the last minute to start
depositing things that existed. You can find a CM wiki archive here, and there are archive of the latest build snapshot . Back then, leaving other resources
such as forums, Gerrit and the site's servers down.
While LineageOS always try to put
together, they can raise their own Gerrit server now. For those who do not
know, Gerrit allows a team of developers to announce changes they would like to
make to the code base. These changes can be seen by other group members, and
they can all comment on it as well. So, before the error has been corrected, or
a new feature is implemented, other developers review it and decide if they
feel it would be a conflict. It also gives people who are outside the
development team a way to see what kind of changes (provided it is published).
Even if you or I can see the recent changes that occur with LineageOS now. We
can see that the commitments are still open, which has merged and abandoned. So
while CyanogenMod as a whole may have encountered a fiasco during the weekends,
there are still a number of people still working on the new code base for
LineageOS
Source:XDA Developers,androidcentral
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