Cyanogen, verantwoordelijk voor het Cyanogen OS wat op diverse Android smartphones te vinden is stopt volgende week met het updaten van het besturingssysteem. De stap volgt op een interne reorganisatie waarbij ook de oprichters uit het bedrijf gewerkt werden. CyanogenMod, het communityproject ziet zich genoodzaakt om een afsplitsing te maken van het OS.
Cyanogen OS stopt
Het bedrijf Cyanogen Inc laat in een kort statement weten dat het bedrijf stopt met de ontwikkeling van het Cyanogen OS alsmede de nightlies. Gebruikers met Cyanogen OS op hun smartphone, zoals bij Wileyfox smartphones het geval is krijgen geen updates meer vanaf 31 december.
Wileyfox heeft aan Tweakers laten weten dat toestellen wel ondersteund worden, maar wie voor de updates zal gaan zorgen is nog onduidelijk. Over de updates van de Zuk Z1 en OnePlus One is op dit moment nog niets bekend. Hieronder kun je het statement van Cyanogen Inc. lezen;
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.
CyanogenMod verder als Lineage
De actieve ontwikkelaarscommunity achter CyanogenMod vindt het stoppen van Cyanogen OS en de nightlies de definitieve druppel en keren Cyanogen de rug toe. In een uitgebreid statement laat het CyanogenMod team weten dat CyanogenMod verder zal gaan onder de naam Lineage OS. Met Lineage OS wil het team terug naar hun roots en CyanogenMod weer terug brengen waar het ooit voor stond. Hieronder het statement van het CyanogenMod team waarom zij tot deze stap genoodzaakt zijn;
Bron Cyanogen, CyanogenMod Via TweakersLast week, we released the final CM-13.0 releases, updated to the latest security patches, in anticipation of what follows.
Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM). This is an action that was not unpredictable given the public departure of Kondik (cyanogen himself) from the company, and with him our last remaining advocate inside Cyngn’s leadership.
In addition to infrastructure being retired, we in the CM community have lost our voice in the future direction of CM – the brand could be sold to a third party entity as it was an asset that Kondik risked to start his business and dream. Even if we were to regroup and rebuild our own infrastructure, continuing development of CM would mean to operate with the threat of sale of the brand looming over our heads. Then there is the stigma that has grown to be attached to anything named ‘Cyanogen’. Many of you reading this have been champions of clarifying that the CM product and CyngnOS were distinct, yet the stain of many PR actions from Cyngn is a hard one to remove from CM. Given CM’s reliance on Cyngn for monetary support and the shared source base, it’s not hard to understand why the confusion remains.
It will come as no surprise that this most recent action from Cyngn is definitely a death blow for CyanogenMod.
However, CM has always been more than the name and more than the infrastructure. CM has been a success based on the spirit, ingenuity and effort of its individual contributors – back when it was Kondik in his home, to the now thousands of contributors past and present.
Embracing that spirit, 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. This is more than just a ‘rebrand’. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently.
CM has served the community well over its 8 long years. It has been our home, bringing together friends from all over the world to celebrate our joy of building and giving. Its apt then that on this Eve of a holiday we pay our respects. We will take pride in our Lineage as we move forward and continue to build on its legacy.
Thank you & Goodbye,
The CyanogenMod Team
