Like LineageOS and LineageOS-for-mircoG should /e/ very quickly put aside the maintenance of e-0.7-nougat and concentrate its manpower on /e/ OS 9-Pie.
The fact is that G°°gle no longer provides official security updates for Android 7.1.1 / 7.1.2 Nougat. The special maintenance of security updates from Android-8-and-9-versions in e-0.7-n- OS ROMs is like a time-consuming handicrafts.
All authoritative customROM developers and helping hands should be considered with donations./e/ anyway, but also Lineage, microG and TeamWin - TWRP. A German proverb says:
Nothing in life is free, only death - and that costs life.