[One (M8) Android Development] Sneakyghost:
I am answering to your statement, yet addressing a general question implied in your remark:

With HTC, one can notice that they internally stop properly supporting their devices after six months. After six months, it will become increasingly harder to get their service to give you free repairs. HTC's warranty statement however says 12 months for US and 24 months for western Europe (source)

What you were probably referring to is HTC's software update promise (which keeps being mentioned on the Internet without me ever finding a legit HTC source to that). However, with the M7 in 2013, talks began of a 2-year guaranteed update policy. Yet we have seen enough evidence that they still won't do that reliably or that that 2-year commitment was nothing more than a myth (I found one webpage with an embedded tweet by HTCUSA saying that HTC updates 2 years but then I tried to follow the link to that tweet and found it was gone).

Team Venom on the other hand used to update HTC phones until HTC stopped updating them, and our devs made sure we even got some port after that for one or two versions. But there is no steady "rule" that always applies. You gotta see that the team consists of individuals with changing biographies (life is a process, yes yes). Since no one in the team gets paid for his/her hobby, the ROM flow will slow down or stop when enough people are occupied with earning their livelihoods and/or caring for family. It would be an entirely different story if Team Venom could pay its programmers money for what they do. But seriously, would anyone here want to pay for a ROM? Likely no. And even if the answer was yes: you need at least the reach of a Cyanogenmod kinda software to sustain a fair income for a small, even tiny team. Sure as hell Team Venom does not even have enough users to sustain one developer. And with the outlook for HTC being rather bleak, chances are that Team Venom won't even have software to work on soon. You and everyone else better get used to the Idea of a future without Viper ROM's. The M10 will be one hell of a ride though. Expect no less than the best Viper ever. :D

And regarding the specific M8 question: the M9 will be the second device besides the M10 soon, and the M8 take the place of the M7. Updates, if an opportunity arises (such as another official HTC update) and the time is there, yes, but not intended/planned.

Did you all nicely fill out the survey form for me? Been good boys n girls? I see only a few people picked the answer with the bad swearwords towards us. That is very nice. Thanks everyone.

I am going to leave the survey open till April 12th, when the HTC 10 / M10 gets released. The surfacing details seem quite promising after the initial first few negative leaks (like no dual speakers). I expect more people of the "undecided" faction to lean towards a "yes" with more nice details about the device surfacing (Anyone seen Antutu scores yet? No? Oh I am excited!).

Also, please guys, feel free to share the survey in your social networks if you have any Viper running smartphone nerd friends.

I hope I could answer the question of what is going to happen to Viper, the M8 and updates reasonably enough.