Some of you may have seen us at MyGreatFest/watched it online, for the benefit of those of you that didnt (and because I didnt actually say half of what I meant to) here is my (slightly edited for context) part of the talk, discussing the future plans of the project.
I'll take some time to explain to you where we are heading and for those of you that want to get involved, what you can do to get involved.
So let's get started, with the future of our s5l8900 ports
We're looking for some enthusiastic developers to maintain and progress the first gen device ports, to free us up to continue our work on the A4 and 3GS ports, specifically to maintain and update both android and the kernel, we'll continue work on openiboot and the kernel for these devices, but keeping android going is beginning to become a battle that we don't have enough time or team members to fight and the way we see it, our time is better spent getting newer device ports completed.
Whilst we are moving current team members away from maintaining android on the older ports, (primarily due to ever evolving android specifications & requirements), we are looking for other community members to join us so that we can focus on the newer ports without abandoning the cause, so if this interests you then feel free to speak to us and we'll be happy to discuss further.
So on to the immediate future of iDroid...
After an large amount of discussion and consideration, we have decided to base our main codebase on CyanogenMod, which I'm sure anyone who knows anything about android, will have come across at some point (some of you may have even seen my proof of concept video on the 3G), it is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most, if not the, most popular android rom for the vast majority of major android handsets out there and implements the vast majority of the most requested features by our community so it makes sense for us to switch.
I will still be maintaining an AOSP based build for the purists among you, but this will be far less up to date than the CyanogenMod based port, I have no plans to bring CyanogenMod to the first generation devices but I have already done some of the legwork and will be happy to help the community get it up to scratch if somebody would like to take on the job.
The community has asked on a number of occasions whether we will be porting honeycomb to the iPad, as it stands at the moment, google have no plans to release the source code until the next major iteration of android (dubbed ice cream sandwich) so at this point it is unknown whether we will port honeycomb, it purely depends on the tablet features of ice cream sandwich as to whether we omit honeycomb altogether.
Now on to Linux....
Anyone familiar with the project will have most likely come across a sister project of ours, project iX, we've been in discussions with the iX project lead Lopi, and have decided to merge our two projects, they are so closely related that the current setup seems a little counter productive, therefore with Lopi I have pledged to help him bring armv7 ubuntu to the A4 devices (I know some of you have been waiting for Linux on the iPad for some time) this is another key reason why we are taking the core team off of the first generation android ports to free up time to progress with some of the more desirable porting projects, a more formal announcement will follow in the current weeks once we've made a few decisions as to where the Ubuntu port is going, but I wanted to let you know about it, so keep an eye out for the announcement if you are interested.
