I look forward to watching the Q&A. Hopefully it's not a problem if I just rattle off several questions for the devs... I'm new here.
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How many developers are currently involved in developing the base Ubuntu Touch OS? (Not including unofficial app or core app developers.)
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What is the next target version for UT? 20.04 already seemed a bit old when UBports ported it. Would you be open to skipping 22.04 and going directly to 24.04?
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With that in mind, previously supported devices are subsequently dropped from the "supported"/"compatible" recommendations... but is this a result of just having low resources, and unable to test and port on all those devices, or do the devices become explicitly incompatible? Take for example a (random) 16.04 5-star fully-compatible device (https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/suzu/release/xenial/) that is seemingly not supported on 20.04 at all; could 16.04-compatible devices technically get on a newer version of UT? Or is hardware of that era just too old for 20.04+ upgrades at this point?
In other words, if a phone is already 16.04-compatible, is that good enough? Would it technically be compatible with subsequent versions of UT? Notwithstanding whether or not the devs can/will provide support for it.
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How vulnerable to security/kernel exploits are users going to be going forward with a 16.04 UT phone? Would it be recommended not to use WIFI at all, or to try and backport the latest versions of apps/utils?
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Lastly, in regards to apps, are they sandboxed from each other, or could I end up writing an app that someone else then writes a specific exploitative app/util for?
Thank you
