- Telegram and GitLab account
- Account on our Discord server
- Familiarity and compliance with all our Telegram/Discord rules
- Familiarity with the contents of the OrangeFox wiki
- Experience of using GNU/Linux or macOS for some time
- Great attention to detail, evidenced, among other things, by the high quality of your device tree (it is not our role to debug your device tree for you), and by your ability to abide by official guidelines
- Having the device in hand
- Having a fully working unofficial build
- Having an unofficial release of your unofficial build, with an XDA thread for it, which you are maintaining, and which shows that the builds have been well-received by the device's XDA community; the XDA thread must have been up and running for at least 4 weeks. Please do NOT apply for maintainership until at least 4 weeks after releasing your unofficial build on XDA. If you do, your request may be ignored, or deleted.
- Having your complete device tree on gitlab.
- Be ready to support your own builds, community part, etc
- Not to be afraid of testing, much testing:
Testing new releases is the most important part of maintaining OrangeFox Recovery. Every new release should be fully tested and guaranteed to be working
- You should not have a negative reputation in the Android community
- You should not be rude
- Hands and brains
- Responsibility, maturity, and patience
- Commitment and dedication (we neither need nor want "fly by night" maintainers, who are "here today, gone tomorrow")
- Full compliance with the maintainers' guidelines (see "Important Notes", below) right from the start
For first you should properly test your unofficial build and fix all known bugs, and establish that it passes our test suite:
- Installing .zip files work
- Installing .img files work
- Backup works
- Restore works
- The external SD card / OTG (if there is one) can be read
- Backup to external SD card / OTG works
- MIUI OTA works (on supported devices)
- Built-in features work normally
- Settings work and are kept after a reboot
- OrangeFox Recovery can decrypt encrypted data partition without asking for a password if no lockscreen password has been set in the ROM
- Recovery password protection works
- Flashlight works (on supported devices)
- Changing themes and splash work and are kept after reboot (on supported devices)
You should fix as many issues as you find. But if you can't fix some issues it won't be a reason for refusing your request for maintainership - but every release you must clearly document all known bugs.
Some advanced functionality is not critical. You can easily disable features that are not working via special build vars.
- All maintainers and prospective maintainers must follow the maintainers' guidelines.
- These include base rules about fstab and more.
- You should
read the guidelines before going any further. They explain our fundamental ground rules, and you need to know that you can comply with all of them before applying to become a maintainer. Otherwise, you will end up wasting your time, and our time.
¶ Applying to become an official maintainer
- If you meet the requirements listed above, you can message in
#apply-for-maintainer on our Discord server to apply for official maintainership. Here is an invitation link - https://discord.com/invite/qbVMJdJbXF
¶ When applying to become an official maintainer, you must provide all of the following:
- A link to your device tree on gitlab. Note - "gitlab" - not something else.
- A link to the XDA thread for your unofficial releases.
- The OrangeFox recovery logs that show the success of your tests (ie, each item in the test suite being executed successfully), as proof that your builds pass the test suite. You should take a separate log for each individual operation (eg, flashing a ROM, flashing an img file, backup, restore, backup to external sdcard/OTG, settings changes, password, flashlight, changing themes). If all these log files are not posted, your request WILL be rejected outright.
- The install.log and post-install.log files that were generated when you flashed the OrangeFox zip.
- It is not sufficient simply to tell us that it all works. We
require hard evidence, in the form of the logs that have been specified.
- If you do not provide all of the above, your request to become a maintainer may simply be ignored, or deleted.
¶ After being accepted as an official maintainer
- Your next step will be to ask for GitLab permissions in order to push your device trees to the OrangeFox gitlab repo.
- Then you will be allowed to push a Beta release.
- Only after positive and successful beta testing, lasting at least 14 days, will you be able to make a Stable release.
We have our own maintainers panel website which will do all the hard work for you.