[OnePlus 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other D] newyorkdragon14:
Like I get it right, there's someone for each of these phones that wants their phone to be continued and by the kindness of their own heart they release an update and maintain this for themselves and a bunch of other people

And like you said sometimes it's out of the kindness out of their own heart but imagine insert maintainer here had their own little blog page that maybe even had a "buy me a cup of coffee" donations box that even if like the thousands of users all gave a dollar That's a big help

Like I know people are really annoying and want specific features and will bug the crap out of someone until they get them

But it would just be interesting to know future plans

Like for instance there was the OnePlus camera that was featured and then was taken away, obviously the Google pixel camera is great but there was some neat features like especially the panoramic on the OnePlus camera that was amazing

Would be interesting to know if that would be coming back at a later date or to never worry about that again

Like even if it was a one-way thing where there was absolutely no way to contact them and they just gave information about how they felt about things

Like obviously they have to have some passion to be able to work on it and for them to be like hey I put a lot of effort into this niche feature and maybe you should try it out or I'm going to try to implement this one cool thing coming up

And people could potentially donate some money or something like a lot of other free open source software has

In this economy time is everything, The maintainer can't expected to spend their whole entire life on something they're putting out for free but only one person could be a maintainer ... Whether it's some rich guy that sits around all day and has nothing better to do but this or some guy working two or three jobs and doing this in his spare time

I'm sure like even when we get the public announcements for like the new security patches for them to be like hey don't expect anything from me this month but next month I got you guys

Like just little bits of information specifically from this maintainer

Because you did link to a thread where like anyone could post about anything

But how does some of those things apply to me

Like I'm in this thread because it's specifically about the OnePlus 7 13 plus which only appeals to me and I only want really info about that and to talk about that

I would also hope that like if everyone here one day started complaining about like their phones just absolutely melting down or like you cannot get any incoming calls or something that the maintainer would take a look because if they didn't occasionally take a look then why the heck are they maintainers

Like I'm not the maintainer nor would I want to be the maintainer or am qualified to be the maintainer

But only one person can be and I'm not sure if it's hard to find one person or like 10 people are fighting to be the one person

You could be lucky to have a maintainer that is completely transparent and loves doing it and having cool features and then you could have one that really doesn't give a ****

Maybe if they didn't give a **** maybe they could pass it on to someone else

All I know is time for both the maintainer and everyone else is valuable in 2023 and it would be nice to waste less time via decent communication