10-17-2023, 06:11 AM
(10-17-2023, 01:27 AM)Uturn Wrote: the mobian blog https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30...t-dilemma/ notes the pinephone Linux kernel is close to being abandoned due to ists dependancy to a single person's development who is not interested in investing more time to develop this kernel anymore: Our single reference tree was then left rotting (the last kernel compatible with the PinePhone being based on 5.9, which was released nearly 3 years ago!) and unmaintained since then. So it does not look like Pinephone users will get any support in future.
Is this true at all, and what does everybody else think about it?
Not completely true.
That single person is megi and megi is just said in Pinephone matrix group that "I am not going to stop soon". So kernel is not abandoned or left rotting - it sure would help if more people start working on it but that statement is not true.
It is not ideal that this is one man show but if you look how many foss projects in general work this is not so out of the ordinary.