CyanogenMod is shutting down, but the Lineage Android Project is poised to keep its spirit alive.
CyanogenMod is no more.
In a post on the official CyanogenMod blog, we're told that the current state
of everything Cyanogen means it's no longer feasible to continue and that the
best path forward requires change. Nobody should be surprised after recent
events within the Cyanogen Inc. parent company and today's announcement that
it has reached the end of the road and will shut down operations.
The puts some hurdles in front of the community-driven CM that
can't be jumped while holding on to the legacy name and structure. Servers and
infrastructure are going to soon disappear, nobody is at the helm to direct the
way forward and the very name Cyanogen itself is available to the right bidder.
CyanogenMod depended on Cyanogen, Inc. A void at the very
top isn't going to work.
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.
But the ideas behind CM aren't dead. The latest version has been
released and updated to the current Android Security Bulletin patches, and
mountains of source code are in the process of being forked into something new
— the Lineage
Android Distribution.
Lineage Android will use everything that CM has made to
build a better grassroots alternative to the software from phone manufacturers.
Even more important than the code and assorted software eight years of CM has
built is the spirit of people who want to make something different and better.
And it lives on under a new name with a new future.
Seeing CM say goodbye is hard.
They've been here in one way or another since the beginning and we've watched
them reach both the highs and lows that accompany any long journey. They embody
the spirit of what Android is once you strip away the dollar signs and
corporations and make it about us. The users, the builders, the dreamers. We
are CM. We're losing a small part of ourselves today.
But we can look forward to the
future with the Linage project, and do everything we can to keep those dreams
and that spirit alive. To everyone involved, We wish you the best. Let us know
how we can help.
Source: http://www.androidcentral.com/goodbye-cyanogenmod-hello-lineage-android