[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] TechSavvy2:
Since there seems to be some confusion....

This thread is for Development. Hence why its in the "development" section.

The other thread is for Discussion. Hence why its in the "General" section, and states "discussion thread" in the title.

What this means - once the threads have been separated, going off past CM post history, the development thread is then intended for development discussion. Examples - possible bug reports, logs posted, anything pertaining to adding to the development / debugging process. The discussion thread, located in general tab, at that point becomes a thread for discussing general knowledge stuff about the builds. Aka how to install, what gapps do I use, are x y and z features enabled, does this rom support all those sh*tty TouchWiz features, etc etc etc.

However, based on all 50 or so CM threads I've been a part of over the years, the two separate threads never go in this direction, and always both end up being general discussion about the build. It NEVER works as its intended to. But its still done for housekeeping/organizational purposes.

With regard to this thread being named "Unofficial", sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. Its always unique to the situation. USUALLY, when you see "Unofficial CM blah blah" it is a thread pertaining to some home-compiled CM goodness, that's coming from a particular person(s), build on their home machine, pulled from source-tree / repo (potentially). However in this instance, that's not necessarily the case. This thread is marked as Unofficial, by slayer himself, because it started exactly as the instance I just described. Slayer (and fattire) started creating the Note 4 repository, adding, fixing, testing, more building, testing, etc etc, then posted test builds here for us (essentially) compiled by them personally. However, once the builds got "Official" status by CM, it means that the builds are now automated by the build system, visible on jenkins. Due to the current instance of slayers builds here being the official prequel to official builds, they were one and the same, just built on a nightly bases from a different machine now. Its not like they're going to update the thread to "Official CM 12 builds", although I've actually seen it happen on occasion, although generally the maintainer will create a new "Official" thread, but that's up to them. Why bother when you don't need to?

To clarify on someones "there hasn't been a build here in weeks" comment, that's because there won't be anymore builds here, likely. You'll notice that little coincidence that there hasn't been a build posted here since the day before official builds dropped. They will all come from the official site now. The only point of "Unofficial" builds now is for if people want to create builds of CM that have cherry-picks of commits not yet merged. All this means is that you get a preview build of what things are most likely getting fixed in the upcoming 2+ builds. Look at it as a build from a couple days in the future. However, I don't believe there are any unofficial CM cherry picking build threads yet. Maybe, haven't looked, don't really care.

I hope this helps present some added clarification to people who seem confused by the separation of threads. :good::good::good: