This is so so sad, :( I’ve been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there’s a fork in the horizon, :(
Anyone know Librewolf developers? They should work on a android build now that mull is dead.
Hopefully we see some of these projects picked up by others. In a weird way, sometimes these sorts of events end up being exactly what a project needs to get forked/transferred and have even more funding/resources thrown at it.
Ive only recently been utilizing mull, mulch, and hypatia, but they’ve been fantastic. All the best to the devs.
Bummer!!! Sucks for all of us. But I understand the dev wanting to move on with his life. Hope someone takes the reins! I would if I had those skills. DivestOS is such a great project. I was literally about to buy a new phone specifically to run DivestOS.
On New Year’s Eve, each of us can radically change our lives, we can only wish him luck.
After a quick look at what I believe is mull’s most up to date repo https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/Mull-Fenix
It doesn’t appear to be too complex to maintain (only looked at the past 3 or so commits as I’m with fam right now)
Hoping someone continues with the project, as it was, in my opinion, probably the most privacy friendly browser for android other than Tor which has it’s usability issues.
I may try to play around with setting up an fdroid build server for the interim after the holidays.
Edit: I wonder if the old maintainer would be open to having some sort of knowledge transfer session?
I’ll reach out to the old maintainer early January, but I’ll try to spend some time understanding the repo before then.
If it requires a lot of maintainace, I’m afraid I won’t have the time as I already work overtime as a software dev.
Feel free to DM me. It’s a good project and will look good on a resume so it’ll be worth my time. I’ll be learning the Android kernel but I’m comfortable with the Linux kernel so it’s the perfect project for me to be honest. I’m also willing to help organize the efforts of others, create documentation and respond to issues and pull requests.
I was already considering contributing to Postmarket OS or Bliss OS but this sounds like a better fit for me.
