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by beeboobaa3 783 days ago
There's a difference between open sourcing and "maintaining an open source project".

Realistically most open source android apps do not receive many, if any, contributions from outsiders. Being open source does however signal the app isn't likely to become a paid shitfest.
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freedomben 782 days ago
Exactly. I wish people would get over this idea that the only two options are closed source or setup and maintain a vibrant community of contributors. It's perfectly fine to just put the code on github and never look at it again. If you're willing to take an additional 30 seconds to be honest in the README.md about your intentions, even better.

Code doesn't have to be perfect to be open.

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whstl 782 days ago
Hosting the source code outside of Github/Gitlab/etc is enough to make maintenance easier already.
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