this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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For any app that isn't network-facing and that works with protocols that haven't been changed in a long time, there is no point worrying over how "active" the development is on an app. If nothing has been broken, then nothing needs fixing. My music player has had all the features it needs for a decade, and continues to work to this day. Why change a good thing?
For those kind of apps I'd love to see like a heartbeat commit. Everything's fine. 2020 nothing to change. All's working well. Just code smell
Gotcha. But what's stopping cyber criminals from seeing these abandoned repos and possibly taking over and implement malware or what not
Have you ever used Github? People can't just push code to the main repo.
And all submissions to F-Droid are checked for this kind of thing.
I mean yes I use github for reference and sometimes downloading but I don't actually know a whole lot about it like push and pull requests and what not, as I haven't found a need to learn it yet. So what you're saying is to basically download apps from github instead of fdroid to ensure you get the latest?
No, I'm not. I'm saying that downloading from F-Droid is perfectly safe, as they verify all updates before putting them on the repo.
Ohhh I understand, thanks