Comment on Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Well, it’s fun that they mention F-Droid, because the maintainers are bullies who bully their contributors and generally act very unpleasant. They like to make new rules on the spot.
I abandoned using the project altogether, not someone I want to support.
Seems to me like they’ve done a pretty good job keeping their store free of malicious apps, I’ve never heard of any breaches like I have of every other store including Snap and Flatpak.
Maybe they’re pissing some people off in the process, but maybe it’s the right people to piss off. They’ve been able to hold it together in the FOSS app space better than most.
tabular@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What rules?
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
That apps published there can’t be wrappers around a web application.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good rule, those should be web addresses, not apps. Or even better, native applications rather than web apps, but it does depend on the context.
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Eh… why?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If you really want to have it available on F-Droid, you can always put it in a separate repository. So I can see it being annoying that they reject it from their repo, but there’s still a reasonable path forward.
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Well, I have the app on Google Play store, which was originally meant to be the alternative, now it’s the main store.
testEmailVerified@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What’s a wrapper in this context?
An app that’s just WebView?
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Not WebView, but a so-called TWA, aka Trusted Web Activity, a features specifically designed to wrap PWAs and give them full-blown app capabilities.