When does an unofficial build get declared official? - LineageOS Questions & Answers

I have been flashing ROMs for years but have never understood the process which moves the build from unofficial to official status (or release candidate to stable in CM terminology.). Is it strictly the developer's decision? Or do the users have input? Or maybe the developer decides based on comments in the ROM thread? Just curious.

Since there have been no replies in 24+ hours, I respectfully ask the moderator to delete this thread. Thank you.

Since nobody answered, I don't think they ever gain official status.
Unofficial Builds are developed by independent developers (not approved by LOS), where official builds are from approved developers.
Could be wrong!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/696evq/official_and_unofficial_lineageos/

Thanks for the reply.

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The Aeroevan [ROM] Unofficial CM9 for vivow (2012-09-05) Community Support Thread

Since Aeroevan's CM9 thread was closed, I felt the forum members might want a thread to continue community support for the ROM. Feel free to create community support threads such as this for all the other ROM threads which were closed because of lack of dev support.
To continue with the last post in the original thread found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1561816&page=240
therreid said:
Also.....no Netflix with this one either....it just won't load.
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Really? I haven't had any Netflix issues. Are you on the latest build?
Without any new developments this is more appropriate for the general section. If in the future you wish to start maintaining the ROM feel free to PM me and I can move this back for you.

[Q] Quick Question regarding Official CM10.2

I have done a couple of searches both on Google and within the forum without success. Maybe my search strings were to specific or not specific enough, but I do know that we don't have an 'Official' CM10.2 flo thread in the Original Android Dev section, while we have several 'unofficial' ones in the regular Android Dev section (I do love DJ's Kang ROM.)
Point is, why isn't there one? Are we still waiting for team CM to designate a person to head up project Flo/Razor? Just curious as to why it is still missing from our forum? And new flash addicts may not be aware of the get.cm link.
There is an official Nightly. There is no official stable release.

Who Will Be First with 4.4

Who do you think will be the first dev with a 4.4 ROM?
CM. They have already pushed initial commits and manifests to github
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Hi,
This thread serves no purpose...please be patient and don't flood the fora with speculations about developers.
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Aquethys
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[Q] Official vs. unofficial

Why are some builds considered official while most are unofficial?
The only "official" builds are found on the Samsung sites. Now, there are mirrors to those build but when in doubt, you get your OEM build from Samdung. All other builds are "hacks" (and I say that as a term of endearment) that are not 100%. These are non-official and using them is at one's own risk. I have tried several of them and found them wanting so I went back to the OEM. Yes, I am rooted but that is all. Rooted with OEM Rom or Firmware. So I guess that means that I do not have OEM Rom on my P5210. Hmmm...:angel:
"Official" builds are those from the Rom's team and are maintained and updated by those teams. "Unofficial" builds are ported by a dev and are not supported by that Roms team.
Unofficial builds are by no means bad. Usually they are ported by a dev because the particular device is not supported by a ROM team.
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I am running the pac-man ROM which I see is unofficial, it runs very well. I did notice that Validus is an official ROM and wondering if that might be better, but think I will stick with Pac-man for now unless there is a reason to change.
I think when it says "Official", that means it is out of testing and preproduction. Not an official sanctioned Rom. If you take your device for repair and they see that rom on there, your warranty is void.
I didn't make it up. That is what it says on the developers site. I suppose they may label it as official just to fool newbies like me.
Brian D said:
What? Don't be ludicrous. Official firmware is made only by the manufacture, not some developer who hacked the OEM Rom in any shape, form,or function. All the roms found on XDA or any other Android site is not official unless it was made by Samsung, or whoever the OEM is for that device.
Please do not redefine words just to suit the occasion or to make others feel good.
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You seem to blinded by what your opinion of official is. Everyone knows that only device manufacturers release "official" firmware, no one will argue that point. But the nature of this question is exactly as @dparrothead1 answered, referring to official or unofficial builds (such as CM, AOSP roms, and recoveries) which are frequently released by teams or groups as "official" releases supported by that team. Often, other people outside of the team will release a build, but since they aren't part of the team, that build is considered in unofficial.
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rjshaw7 said:
I didn't make it up. That is what it says on the developers site. I suppose they may label it as official just to fool newbies like me.
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Validus is official. It is built and maintained by Ground Zero Roms and it is very smooth and fast. It also has all the customizations you could want!!!
Make a nandroid of you pac-man and try it.....you can always reinstall your present ROM.
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dparrothead1 said:
Validus is official. It is built and maintained by Ground Zero Roms and it is very smooth and fast. It also has all the customizations you could want!!!
Make a nandroid of you pac-man and try it.....you can always reinstall your present ROM.
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Thank you, may give it a try.
I have since revised my post.
Brian D said:
I have since revised my post.
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No problems. I never take offense at anything said on a forum.
I just try to give information and never try to push my views on anyone.
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Thank you for all the input. It is all appreciated.

How does CM development work?

I was wondering how and when the CM unofficial, nightlys and stables get posted or moderated. I know Grarak does allot for the community in the unofficial builds of cm 11 and 12, but after they become official does he still work on them or are they taken over by a larger development team for non specific device patches to cyanogen mod?
macieksoft said:
I was wondering how and when the CM unofficial, nightlys and stables get posted or moderated. I know Grarak does allot for the community in the unofficial builds of cm 11 and 12, but after they become official does he still work on them or are they taken over by a larger development team for non specific device patches to cyanogen mod?
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It being "Official" only means it's hosted on the Cyanogen website, and that all the Cyanogen Mod source code changes get auto injected into the builds. daily, then uploaded. That's automated.
Everything that's specific for our device Grarak still does.
i was asking myself the same question, so thank you for the question, and thanks for the answer :good:

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