Who's going to make sure LineageOS users get security updates in a timely manner? Is anyone going to be paid to work on it?

Any large OSS distribution is going to have a fairly continuous stream of security fixes to ship to their users, and that takes a fair amount of time, and I'm always concerned about whether any new project (okay—it's not quite new, but they have a fraction of the number of developers they did twelve months ago!) has the resources to ship them in a timely way.

The question is what will ensure the continual non-profitness of lineageOS?

The problem is two fold:

1. Get maintainers. 2. Make sure that the high ranking individuals can't just "take the ball and go home", and (however unpopular this opinion may be here), GPL is the only way to ensure that they will never be able to sell out ever again.

And especially after the CM/CyanogenOS/Focal/Paranoid Android situation, private ROMs seem to be too much of an "aquihire" risk.

If google wants Android to survive as a platform, they should be directly giving money to projects like this, they are what make it bearable.

Also, why don't they remerge with OmniRom?

Very pleased by this. Have used CM on my phone for over a year now, was quite scared with the idea of it disappearing!

(Will also look into seeing how I can contribute, although every time I've tried I've hit a "users file crappy bugs" filter that stops me reporting without installing a debug build on my main phone.)

I am very happy to see the continuation of CM in the form of LineageOS. Thank you.

So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?

The name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

When exactly will cm shut down? Until when will I be able to get the freshest nightlies of CM14.1?

Also, will I have to re-reclean flash LineageOS over CM?

What's the background on this?

Why is Cyanogen shutting down?

I'm getting really confused here.

I thought CyanogenOS was a commercial venture that arose out of CyanogenMod. But that they were essentially separate protects. I'd read about CyanogenOS coming a cropper, but understood this wouldn't affect CyanogenMod. Now, these linked articles seem to be treating -OS and -Mod as the same project/same organisation.

Can anyone explain?

Funny they'd use that quote of Andy Rubin, like it means anything nowadays.

https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/772592323112869888