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I'm not sure we'd like to out-source the bridge's hosting, but I would really love some help with managing it... We need to move all of our Matrix bridges within the next few weeks, and I've seen Matterbridge used successfully in the Pine64 community... the only people who complain are on Matrix.

See left side of this board: https://github.com/orgs/ubports/projects/15 - All critical devel bugs must be fixed before we make a new RC

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry to say that the maintainer for the Sony Xperia X (F5121) port, Alfred, has reached a critical point. He needs to stop his current volunteer positions. That includes his maintainership of the Xperia X port.

Many of you know Alfred. He's been one of the most important drivers of Halium 7.1 for well over a year. Working on the Xperia X port, he's found and fixed a great number of issues. His first ever was fixing the mount of odm partitions under Halium 7.1 by pulling in some upstream changes. He's gone on to propose or merge 24 changes to Halium and 25 changes to Ubuntu Touch... in addition to all of his work on the Xperia X-specific repositories.

He's ported multiple apps from Sailfish to Ubuntu Touch, you can find them all on his OpenStore profile

Remember when the MX4 wasn't able to boot edge, and it seemed no one would figure it out? Alfred figured it out with this PR.

He's also joined us on multiple Q&A sessions, his first was Q&A 48, then he helped save my bacon on Q&A 56 and Jan's on Q&A 58. He also talked a bit more porting on Q&A 60.

Basically, what I'm saying is... He's a cool guy. If you have a development position open in Vienna, accept remote work, or you have a unicorn position working on Ubuntu Touch available, you need to stop reading this and send him to your HR manager.

What he really asked me to write this post for, though, was to call for maintainers for the Xperia X port. The port is close to completion, and relied on by a few in the community, but needs someone to take over.

Now, before you say "I can't do that, I'm not a developer," remember: I wasn't a developer three years ago either. Porting Ubuntu Touch sounds hard - it is hard - but most of the work for either a seasoned developer or a newbie is trying things until they work. Don't let your perceived inexperience stop you.

Alfred is minimally available to help you out, and of course the rest of the community is still here too. If you're interested and have a device, you can find the Halium information for the device at halium/projectmanagement#98, and you can find help via the getting community help section of the UBports Documentation. You can start whenever you like, message us whenever you like, or reply here if you're interested.

Thank you for your time.

@paci87 You are mislead by the container architecture:

• First you need a way to access Ubuntu Touch (adb OR ssh)
• Then you install adb inside UT
• Then you can use it to access Anbox or install apks there

Its like an onion

In any Halium port (Sony X, OP3, OP3T) there is no ADB enabled by default. Instead you can use ssh, which provides us with a common method for Android and Non-Android devices in the future.

It looks like we will be able to do this on time. Our business side is quite confident

Hi @saveurlinux, thanks for getting in contact with us. I've forwarded your information on to the Foundation Board of Directors (as did Florian, who's current sitting on the board) so they can coordinate with you. I trust you received word back?

Can you please try to install latest devel with the installer and the bootstrap option set? The issue is fixed there hopefully. Then you can switch back to stable with no bootstrap, and it should stay ok.

@saveurlinux No idea if we can do this, but I can ask...

Well thats a hard question, we do not have any experience with Windows phones, technically its possible, but it depends on if drivers are available for Linux. As those device do not ship their drivers like Android devices in more or less accessible device and vendor trees, this can be a hard journey.