@fdroidorg at this point is being used to push out an app with sensitive permissions that’s been taken over by an unknown individual who refuses to engage with its large community of users and developers.
I STRONGLY recommend disabling updates from Fdroid, if not uninstalling and manually installing 2.0.11.2, or installing the Google Play version which has a different maintainer.
this is extremely shady and it’s just looking worse as time goes on. I’ll link to the Syncthing forum thread from about where I left off last time in a subsequent post.
It’s just the process of the handover that is making people skittish with the github going private then reappearing with a new maintainer.
I think best route would have been for researchxxl to just fork syncthing-fork to put on F-droid, and catfriend1 just leave their branch archived with an endorsement of researchxxl.
After some time passes and researchxxl gains trust in the community I’m sure people will trust their work. The transition just wasn’t handled well.
Exactly; would have been much cleaner. The recent update to v2 already required migrating one’s config. So doing it again (now knowing the process) to such new “fork-fork” would’ve been a no-brainer.
But the whole situation has a more critical aspect than this technical issue: the new dev’s appearance out of nowhere, lack of reasonable communication, and arrogance.