Looking for some BUILDERS to teach / guide me

You might continue with repo sync -j1 --fail-fast --force-sync and keep checking / searching the errors, you may get a resolution, or you may decide the environment is contaminated.

Edit, seen late

ERROR: missing required binary: aapt

sudo apt install aapt

Another edit, seen late.

I found an alternative and much newer kernel source under “forks”: https://github.com/sileshn/android_kernel_samsung_msm8930-common. To apply it, a suggested …

manifest revision
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
  <project name="LineageOS/android_device_samsung_serranoltexx" path="device/samsung/serranoltexx" remote="github" />
  <project name="LineageOS/android_device_samsung_serrano-common" path="device/samsung/serrano-common" remote="github" />
  <project name="LineageOS/android_device_samsung_qcom-common" path="device/samsung/qcom-common" remote="github" />
  <project name="LineageOS/android_device_samsung_msm8930-common" path="device/samsung/msm8930-common" remote="github" />
<!-- kernel sileshn
    ##################################################### -->
  <remote name="sileshn" fetch="https://github.com/" />
  <project name="sileshn/android_kernel_samsung_msm8930-common" path="kernel/samsung/msm8930-common" remote="sileshn" />  
</manifest>