Why was I banned from GrapheneOS? That’s a good question.
Anyone who follows me on GitHub knows that I make a lot of contributions to many different open-source projects, especially security-related ones.
A couple years ago, I wanted to try-out both GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, but I found that a niche security feature that’s very important to me hasn’t been implemented in either ROM, so I opened a friendly feature request ticket in both ROM’s repos:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/2052 https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/1573
My feature request for GrapheneOS
My feature request for CalyxOS
Neither ticket got much traction. There was some discussion on the CalyxOS ticket. But the GrapheneOS ticket was closed by Daniel Micay (Lead Developer of GrapheneOS at the time) 5 hours after I opened it. I forgot about it.
A year later, someone commented on the GrapheneOS ticket (it was the first and only comment other than Micay’s) expressing interest in my feature request, including some useful information: an implementation (that was blocking the CalyxOS ticket) was already written by LineageOS.
When I saw the comment in my email inbox (and realized it might unblock the feature getting added to CalyxOS), I got excited. I tried to
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