Note that (at least to my understanding) this is not due to support getting worse, but the standards for main category getting higher (which I think is good)
The question is if any actual devices will manage to get there. From what I see of pmOS, it’s mostly a lot of people getting devices to boot, but nothing daily drivable. Which is totally fine, there’s a lot of fun in getting things to work, but the rest of the 10% is a slog. It’s just a question of if it’s relevant/interesting to people beyond SoC hackers.
The technical requirements for being in the “main” category didn’t change, we added some new requirements wrt having more active maintainers for a “main” device.
We want “main” devices to be well supported, and a key part of that is usually having more folks who want to do the dev/support/testing for the device.
I hope to see some new phones in “main” next year 🤞
Oh that’s so sad. There are no longer any actual phones in the main category :-(
Note that (at least to my understanding) this is not due to support getting worse, but the standards for main category getting higher (which I think is good)
The question is if any actual devices will manage to get there. From what I see of pmOS, it’s mostly a lot of people getting devices to boot, but nothing daily drivable. Which is totally fine, there’s a lot of fun in getting things to work, but the rest of the 10% is a slog. It’s just a question of if it’s relevant/interesting to people beyond SoC hackers.
The technical requirements for being in the “main” category didn’t change, we added some new requirements wrt having more active maintainers for a “main” device.
We want “main” devices to be well supported, and a key part of that is usually having more folks who want to do the dev/support/testing for the device.
I hope to see some new phones in “main” next year 🤞