[mdaniel]

"No one" is a bit harsh; I even helped a poster in r/Signal set up a CircleCI build for the repo in order to show that it's not oppressively hard, just tedious (as with all things CI/CD)

The Signal android build now uses some PKCS11 machinery that requires patching out to build without using a smartcard, but otherwise it works as expected.

I dove into this darkness while trying to fix the borked MMS handling on Visible (a Verizon MVNO), and is the reason I'm generally with you: if someone can't build the project, then it's not effectively open source, IMHO, because I lose my "right to repair"