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Coordinating a raid on our issue tracker because we decided to use a different app distribution mechanism than F-Droid is unacceptable. We have valid technical reasons for not using F-Droid. In the past, we were fine with them packaging our apps but now we really aren't anymore.

Travis Burtrum <notifications@github.com>
11:34 (57 minutes ago)
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I don't know who you think you are, but f-droid is a great group of volunteers providing an excellent service for all Android users and it's ridiculous for a project that simply forks Android, and adds nothing meaningful other than a pitiful attempt at "adding security" and more vendor lock-in to make threats like this. You should be ashamed of yourself and apologize.

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Menelmacar <notifications@github.com>
11:42 (49 minutes ago)
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I'm not part of F-droid or graphene or anything.
I'm just an end user.

I wonder where are all these attacks? And how does one know its official from the fdroid team and not just "people on the internet"
Its sad to see this hatred in the com

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Feb 26

We explained our reasoning for needing to make a new app repository system to one of our community members on Twitter. This is not a reasonable or acceptable response from one of their project members. It isn't going to silence us from explaining the reasoning behind decisions.

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In gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidd, you wrote: “Our response will continue to be focusing on the technical aspects and building better software. We're going to be building a replacement for F-Droid and pushing for it being adopted elsewhere...

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...We'll be collaborating with other projects on these efforts. There will be other repositories using the system we plan on developing and some of those intend to provide a full alternative to F-Droid.” Is it what you're talking about here or only a GrOS based repository?

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

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@Muntashir

It's not the context for what happened. I posted comments in the thread on GitLab about packaging Auditor after this happened as our response to it. Removing the fastlane metadata we were asked to add for F-Droid and requesting they avoid publishing our apps is our response.

6:19 PM · Feb 26, 2022Twitter Web App

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I wasn't talking about the issue on GitLab. I was only interested in this particular statement and wanted to know if “needing to make a new app repository system” relates to this. Thanks.

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We need to make a new app repository system due to the design and implementation limitations of F-Droid on a technical level. It has been planned since 2018. GrapheneOS repository will be usable outside GrapheneOS and we have bigger ambitions for this than only our own repo.

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