That's such a shame. From what I can gather, Izzy really cares about FOSS software. This will be a massive loss. But if we're honest, how can two thirds of the board quit rather than just the one person that's causing problems?
That's such a shame. From what I can gather, Izzy really cares about FOSS software. This will be a massive loss. But if we're honest, how can two thirds of the board quit rather than just the one person that's causing problems?
Because the person causing the problems has admin access to the infrastructure and one of the main problems is that they refuse to share it.
So, unless they fork it to create a competing product, they can't really do anything about the situation
Well, i would imagine if hes the only one who has administrative access to the gitlab environment, then basicly he can do as he pleases and anyone on the board cant stop him anyway (if they cant remove him from gitlab because they have no administrative rights), so all they can do is quit.
Thats what i think :)
I'm not super familiar with the situation but very familiar with how boards work.
Anyone know why the board resigned instead of pursuing legal action? Unless the gitlab instance was in the admins actual name, it belongs to the org. A restraining order removing the admin would be enough for gitlab proper to remove the guy and install someone else.
While most courts don't know a lot about technology, board of director actions are very, very straight forward.
Seriously. Thats not okay
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447
Something about someone named Hans always overriding a community boards decisions regarding the future of Fdroid so they are shutting down. I think.
Completely agree. I'm not going to dig through the original when I can read a summary
first simple tools and now fdroid? sad times, I hope fdroid can survive this
yep, they sold out to an advertising comoany
I don't think fdroid will distribute the sold out versions, it happened just a few days maybe a little more or less than a week ago
What happened with simple tools?
yep, they sold out to an advertising comoany
Thats a bit sad. Recently got a job where i can start to donate a bit to projects that helped me as a student :( feel bad for being a bit late
i use that calendar
there's still a donate link on fDroid. Are we donating to an ad company?
any links for more information?
edit: š https://programming.dev/post/6711083
Could you elaborate?
Obtainium is an app that allows you to install android applications directly from git, f-droid repos, and apk mirroring sites. Haven't used it myself yet but I've been hearing about it with more frequency recently.
Yes this is a new functionality over the last couple months but at least on my phone it auto-updates in the background without issue.
I will never use anything of the sort. App stores are good
App stores provide a way to consolidate apps into one place. F-droid is good because its a enclave of free software for android. If I want something like a calculator app I can find one that is libre just by searching.
I also like F-droids policy against anti features like tracking and proprietary blobs. The warnings make choosing free applications very easy.
How do other repositories handle this? Do they just use F-Droid to process the apps and then just add the F-Droid version of that app to their repository, or is there another method they use?
So that would mean that, unless I'm wrong, the closest thing to an alternative for F-Droid that currently exists would be Obtainium. Obtainium is the only other android app that I'm aware of that can install/update apps directly from sources like GitHub.
This is why organizations need strong bylaws. Without bylaws we are in trouble.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is a way to protest this? This Hans fella may be reasonable. I would also like to hear his prospective.
Also, I would be concerned about two things. The first thing is who controls the finances. In the chaos of it all someone could walk off with a bunch of money. Second off, we should be worried about related organizations like lineage. Lineage os isn't a nonprofit which means someone could or could have already started doing things like embezzling. Being a nonprofit with bylaws is time consuming but it protects against bad behavior.
2 of them: https://github.com/Droid-ify/client
I hope the devs find good projects in the future. I use fdroidomn my phone, but now I might have to rethink it
thanks for using Leebra!
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What has happened? Thats a reddit link
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