11-24-2023, 06:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2023, 06:01 AM by Kevin Kofler.)
They are mainly missing someone to maintain the Plasma Mobile packages (have been ever since Strit left a few months ago). (I do not know exactly what happened between Manjaro and Strit, but since his departure, the ARM team is very understaffed.) Neither can Manjaro find a new employee to handle Plasma Mobile maintenance (the Plasma Mobile maintainer position has been vacant for months now), nor are they responding to offers to help from the community (at least mine got no answer at all).
Also keep in mind that Pine64 does not fund this position, despite shipping that operating system from factory on their devices. The reason Pine64 can be as cheap as it is (for a niche product) is that it spends very little money on software development, offloading it all to the community (and that includes companies like Manjaro in this case). Just look at the Purism prices to see how much it costs to fund the software development.
Also keep in mind that Pine64 does not fund this position, despite shipping that operating system from factory on their devices. The reason Pine64 can be as cheap as it is (for a niche product) is that it spends very little money on software development, offloading it all to the community (and that includes companies like Manjaro in this case). Just look at the Purism prices to see how much it costs to fund the software development.