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All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the attention-open-source-developers dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader Nemosoft Unv. writes: A very brief post on Cyanogen's blog says it all really: "As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally." Of course, with no focused team behind the CyanogenMod project it's effectively dead. Building an Android OS from scratch is no mean feat and most users won't be able to pull this off, let alone make fixes and updates. So what will happen next? Cyanogen had already laid off 20% of its workforce in July, and in November announced they had "separated ties" with Cyanogen founder and primary contributor Steve Kondik. One Android site quoted Kondik as saying "what I was trying to do, is over" in a private Google+ community, and the same day Kondik posted on Twitter, "Time for the next adventure." He hasn't posted since, so it's not clear what he's up to now. But the more important question is whether anyone will continue developing CyanogenMod.

UPDATE: Android Police reports that the CyanogenMod team "has posted an update of their own, confirming the shutdown of the CM infrastructure and outlining a plan to continue the open-source initiative as Lineage." The team posts on their blog that "we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches."

3 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. LibreOffice by mentil · · Score: 1, Informative

    Remember LibreOffice? Someone will pick this up and keep developing it.

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    Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
  2. Continuing via fork under new name 'LineageOS' by Athanasius · · Score: 5, Informative

    We will take pride in our Lineage as we move forward and continue to build on its legacy.

    So not 100% dead, just not using the CyanogenMod brand any more because it's become tainted.

  3. Re: At least iOS is still around. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    New devices, since Android 6.0 Marshmallow, do encrypt by default. Custom ROMs often turn this off, CyanogenMod left it on.