[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Re: Unofficial LineageOS 14.1 for S5 Updates - Amazing!

Why are you talking about? I can see lineage-14.1-20181031-UNOFFICIAL-klte.zip here in haggertk's folder & that's only 19 days old.

If you go up one level you can find folders for S5 klte, kltechn, kltechnduo, klteduos, kltedv, kltekdi, kltekor and all with builds 2018-10-31.

For the convenience of other users he also offers for download low demand: kltespr (lineage-14.1-20170122-UNOFFICIAL-kltespr.zip, klteusc (lineage-14.1-20170122-UNOFFICIAL-klteusc.zip) & kltevzw (lineage-14.1-20170121-UNOFFICIAL-kltevzw.zip).

Only [MENTION=2693412]haggertk[/MENTION] can say if they include only a security patch or some of the merged patch you can see here: https://review.lineageos.org/q/status:merged+branch:cm-14.1 as of 2018-10-31 or 30th. but he replied to this question in the LineageOS subreddit Changes between official klte 14.1 20180706 an unofficial 14.1 20180830 by u/haggertk?:

He is the maintainer of the S5 klte family LineageOS 15.1 (thread) and is working hard on the S5 16.0 beta as discussed here: [ROM][9.0][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 16.0.

You can see his unpaid volunteer work for the LineageOS project here: https://review.lineageos.org/q/owner:haggertk%40lineageos.org and that does not include his work behind the scene as of one of the 9 LineageOS directors + the posts he makes on XDA & in the LineageOS subreddit + his other personal projects.

I prefer that he works on current 15.1 & future 16.0 instead of the older 14.1. Anyway it's his choice and he can do as he pleases.

He is maintaining & hosting from the goodness of his heart some unofficial S5 LineageOS 14.1 just for you guys.

I find the whole thing really impressive & incredible! :eek:

Well if you look in the S5 klte 14.1 folder linked above you can see @ the present 423 downloads for build 2018-08-30 and 186 downloads for 2018-10-31 and that's not counting the ones in the other folders. Also it's against the rules to discuss unofficial builds in the LineageOS subreddit so this thread is a home for them with posts still made in it.

As you can see in the review.lineageos.org link above some devs are still working on 14.1 and in this CyanogenMod article it says that at one point Cyanogen Inc. raised $7 million & had 136 employees + the community supporting it while the LineageOS Team is made entirely of unpaid volunteer so there is a limit to what they can humanly do.

And why not criticize Samsung for not using part of it's army of engineers to make a Pie update for the S5? Or at least release some vendor security updates?

Define "a lot". ;)

You can see @ the present in https://stats.lineageos.org/ 52,775 klte "active downloads" which means S5 klte devices pinging almost every day to the LineageOS servers if LineageOS Statistics > Stats collection in Settings is enabled which it is by default.

More info about it in lineageos-infra/tribble-tracker.

That's a lot if you compare to the small 14.1 download numbers above. While the stats page does not specify the build version one may presume that it's mostly 15.1 + some 16.1 beta but you can see here only 1,139 downloads for lineage-16.0-20181108-UNOFFICIAL-klte.zip and 196 downloads @ the present for lineage-16.0-20181118-UNOFFICIAL-klte.zip.

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