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Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by aredox »

lucideer wrote: post #35
em-bee wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i might flag this because the statement is to vague to merit any public discussion outside of the people involved. all we get is speculations and accusations, that are not worthy of a discussion on hackernews, in my opinion.

Independently of the veracity of any statements from either side, the simultaneous resignation of 3 of the main foundation members of the primary open-source repository for the largest mobile OS seems worthy of HN.

As I feel it is missing the forest for the trees to flag this, I made a submission that should be more editorially worthy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517576

Also note that the accusation is clear: Hans doesn't respect anything proposed by the ComCo, making it useless despite their clear mandate, personally undercutting the ComCo members with vague accusations.

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by aredox »

mikecoles wrote: post #33
aredox wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the fact several other people have resigned?

Trouble travels in packs.

Ridiculous. This is 3 out of 4 ComCo members - which were vetted only a few months ago - and Hans and others are unable to provide any explanation, not even to those whose reputation is questioned by him and only him (when he is far from being a neutral arbiter).

This is worse character assassination than any "woke" bullshit. But thanks for outing yourself as someone completey unserious.

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by KaiserPro »

smegsicle wrote: post #70

is it just me or has there been an unlikely number of strange restructurings recently? unity and openai as the most high profile, but also in niche places like yahtzee crowshaw / escapist mag, and now even fdroid maybe a covid aftershock, have there been any others?

unity and escapist are down to money.

Openai is ego based

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by g-b-r »

F*ck Sylvia too??? I do remember not liking Hans much, I hope they start their own project but this is a huge mess and a horrible news for Android!!!

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by g-b-r »

em-bee wrote: post #43
KennyBlanken wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN links to vague "I'm stepping down" forum/mailing list/blog posts and even tweets all the time .

yes, and sometimes someone can post some helpful background or relevant details. that doesn't seem to be happening here.

The post has many links through which all the available information can be gleaned, and this is *definitely* a news item that plenty of people here would want to be aware of, even without knowing any further detail.

You're involved in this?

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by g-b-r »

remram wrote: post #9

This is quite serious. The only point of f-droid is to be a community repository, if it is controlled by a single individual doing harmful things with no oversight, it is over as far as I'm concerned.

There are many points of F-Droid

If things stand like this though in all likelihood people should switch to a clone project maintained by the people who left (and there will be a huge mess)

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by g-b-r »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #19
lemper wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some other insight? tfa seems to paint hans as a passive aggressive dude. in the gitlab issue, another person shows up and gave a similar statement about hans. and in the latest reply by hans, it seems that he takes the L.

Multiple people simultaneously resigned from the community board at the same time, which makes it very clear it's not this 'one person dragging their personal stuff into public'.

Extremely important people, by the way

Re: Leaving F-Droid

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Post by g-b-r »

em-bee wrote: post #32
lucideer wrote: post #24

@dang given the subject of this post is censoring statements made within their own community, I'm concerned about how quickly this was dropped off frontpage due to being flagged here on HN - wondering if this is potentially an abuse of the flag button (by sockpuppets?). If not and this flagging was approved by mods for legitimate reasons please ignore this comment.

i might flag this because the statement is to vague to merit any public discussion outside of the people involved. all we get is speculations and accusations, that are not worthy of a discussion on hackernews, in my opinion.

The issue is hard to understand precisely because someone tried to conceal it: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447#note_1674904906

And someone has tried the same here

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