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by lucideer
934 days ago
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> Never was a community-run project IME. That's the impression given by posts linked here. The initiative to begin trying to transform it into a community-run project seems to have kicked off roughly 12 months or so ago[0] - and by all accounts seems to have been met with significant resistance from the bdfl that preceded it. [0] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/commit/031eeb78c8e35960a9a... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks
and Ciaran, while largely silent, still "holds the master keys" (figuratively and somewhat literally).
As an F-Droid member myself, albeit a completely tangential and pointless one, the only things I know about why Hans is _de facto_ leader and cannot be overridden even by the bodies created for overseeing the entire project are a couple of factors mentioned right here: that he is the only one with Owner access on GitLab, and that he is Technical Lead, "initially", in the board:
https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html