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+**NOTE:** If you are looking for Glodroid 1.0, please navigate to the
+[master branch](https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest/tree/master)
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+# GloDroid 2.0
+
+## Ports
+
+At this moment we ported the following devices to GloDroid 2.0:
+
+[PinePhone](https://github.com/GloDroidCommunity/pine64-pinephone)
+[PinePhone-Pro](https://github.com/GloDroidCommunity/pine64-pinephonepro)
+[Raspberry PI 4](https://github.com/GloDroidCommunity/raspberry-pi)
+
+We are currently working on porting the remaining devices / adding new ones.
+
+## Introduction
+
+GloDroid is an Android port that aims to bring both user- and developer-friendly
+experience in using AOSP with a set of single-board computers (SBC), phones and
+other devices.
+
+Version 2.0 brings a mono-repository approach, which gives the following benefits
+compared to the classic manifest-based approach:
+
+1. No need to maintain forks. All necessary delta is stored in the form of patches.
+   Benefits: Such patches are a lot easier to maintain. No need to merge/rebase
+   fork repositories. Patches are much easier to review by external auditors to
+   ensure high project trustworthiness.
+
+2. Atomic changes.
+   Benefits: Classic approach may require synchronization of multiple changes in
+   different repositories. Gerrit has a "Topic: " field for this purpose, but
+   GitHub/GitLab doesn't support such flow. The mono-repository approach makes it possible.
+   CI is much easier to integrate.
+
+3. Decouple devices or devices group from each other.
+   As time has shown, maintaining all devices under the same manifest is impractical.
+   It significantly increases the release cycle since all devices must be validated before
+   publishing. Also, some devices may require custom patches on top of AOSP or vendor
+   components, while others don't.
+   It also allows different people to maintain different devices independently,
+   benefiting from using a common code, without waiting for each other.