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#GrapheneOS Important Statement

One of our two senior developers has been forcibly detained and conscripted to participate in a war. When they first went missing, we revoked their repository access as a precaution. We soon learned their disappearance was completely unrelated to GrapheneOS. Our priority has been keeping them safe.

We've used our available connections to try to keep them safe. There's no way to get them out of the conscription. However, they're an incredibly talented security researcher and engineer and it would be extraordinarily misguided to send them to front line combat. This seems to be understood now.

GrapheneOS development and updates have continued and will keep going. We have substantial funds available to hire multiple experienced developers. We'll need to hire multiple experienced developers to fill their big shoes. They'll hopefully be safe and when they return we'll have a bigger team.

If you're an experienced AOSP developer interested in working full time on GrapheneOS in a fully remote position, see the hiring page at:

https://grapheneos.org/hiring

We can pay people anywhere in the world via BTC, XMR, ETH or Wise (local bank transfers). We need people who can hit the ground running due to the current situation.

Our near term focus is going to heavily shift to Android 16 porting, maintenance and continuing to do better patching than standard Android 15 QPR2. An OEM providing us early access to Android 16 sources would help a lot and we wouldn't need to slow down new feature development nearly as much.

You mean your lead developer works for the Israeli military? Great news to stop using GrapheneOS, though it would’ve been better if you had warned us about that earlier.

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The whole world is full of War, it could be any country

any country = Israel or Ukraine

Definitely Ukraine

Astuteness is good. Nice reading comprehension.

It means exactly that.

You agree with the idea?

Which idea? That there might be a conflict of interest if lead devs are politicised? It's only logical to assume this stance.

What is your action plan now based on that? Do you feel the fact that they revoked his access is not enough?

Mossad is in GOS, potentially.

The developer isn't Israeli, we don't have developers there, and it doesn't involve any armed conflict in the Middle East.

Not Israel? Well, that’s a bit better then 🤔 In that case, I hope the steps taken are enough.

Great. Thanks for the clarification. Would have been better if you worded the post better as to avoid confusion.

They aren't Israeli.

what are they? israeli doesn't exist. just evil settlers and colonizers exist in occupied Palestine

It's nothing to do with Palestine or the Gaza War and is completely unrelated.

We're avoiding directly mentioning the country or the war since we don't want to be pushed into others' political debate about military conscriptions.

Please just stop this unprofessional blaming. GrapheneOS is an opensource project. When there is something to blame, show the commit, which is fraudulent.

In a opensource project it does not matter, who is involved. It only matters what commits are accepted and which ones not.

What is about it? They have been kicked out due to legal advice and so what?

It is also written, that with non-russian email adresses, they can still contribut to the kernel.

So Linux also is still open for contributors from everywhere. Since it is no KYC process in place to propose a change in the code.

Shut up