Daniel Micay Steps Down As Lead Developer Of GrapheneOS and as Foundation Director

"I've stepped down as lead developer of GrapheneOS and will be replaced as a GrapheneOS Foundation director. I'll be ending my use of public social media. I'm unable to handle the escalating level of harassment including recent swatting attacks. There will be a smooth migration.

I'm confident the project will be in good hands with the rest of the development team. I'll be training them to handle everything I used to do myself. I haven't been a particularly active developer for a while now and there will be little impact on ongoing feature development.

One of our veteran developers will be taking over administration of the server infrastructure. Local infrastructure for official builds, signing and testing will be replicated in multiple locations and verified against each other to reduce trust in any particular location.

I'm going to focus on recovery from everything that has transpired since 2018. I have not been doing well, particularly in the past few weeks, but there has been no break from it since 2018. The police know about the swatting situation and are preventing it happening again.

It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles." As posted by Daniel Micay Former lead developer and former Foundation Director. https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay/110437191840640957

an addition: "There will be no new leader of GrapheneOS. It will be controlled by the GrapheneOS Foundation, which has a board of directors. Currently, I'm one of 3 directors. I'll be leaving that position, but that's already not absolute control. We'll be raising it to 4 directors so that 3/4 agreement is required to do anything. I will continue being the person who chooses the directors. If someone was an issue I would replace them next election but we can set it up to be quicker than that." https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay/110444177844902462

Another addition: Someone asks: "@DanielMicay you mean after the Louis Rossmann debacle?" https://mastodon.melroy.org/@melroy/110437577010560099

Daniel Micay replies: "After recent massive escalation of harassment from another person pushing claims that I'm insane? Yes" As posted by Daniel Micay. https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay/110438357024189891