Ha! I was about to come and comment on this, and was glad to see that you already made it in the thread :-) I also wish I still had time for unrevoked-like projects.
One of the things that I think differentiates the Android community from the iOS community is a focus on short term results. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. On the upside, more freed devices is generally a positive thing, and OEM branches of Android -- at least, in the past -- have been a veritable 0day tree (shake them and exploits just fall out onto the ground). On the downside, vendors have been getting more competent at reverse engineering exploits than they were in the unrevoked days, and so exploits are usually well and truly burned once they've been released. This means that early users who want "more more more, now now now" mean that later users may not get to unlock their device at all.
The iOS groups seem to solve this by timing releases together, based on Apple hardware. I suspect that this is a more sustainable model... but on the other hand, it doesn't matter what I think, because as bounties like this grow, it's not a model that can thrive :-) Oh, well.
Unfortunately, these days it's more like iOS group - there's only one. It helps that Apple usually doesn't bother to patch the bugs until the next release, so jailbreaks last a long time, but there's only so far you can go with a lack of interested people. (Don't look at me...)
One of the things that I think differentiates the Android community from the iOS community is a focus on short term results. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. On the upside, more freed devices is generally a positive thing, and OEM branches of Android -- at least, in the past -- have been a veritable 0day tree (shake them and exploits just fall out onto the ground). On the downside, vendors have been getting more competent at reverse engineering exploits than they were in the unrevoked days, and so exploits are usually well and truly burned once they've been released. This means that early users who want "more more more, now now now" mean that later users may not get to unlock their device at all.
The iOS groups seem to solve this by timing releases together, based on Apple hardware. I suspect that this is a more sustainable model... but on the other hand, it doesn't matter what I think, because as bounties like this grow, it's not a model that can thrive :-) Oh, well.