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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

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Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

They're moving a lot of code to this internal core, which means this core is unstable. It's pretty common for projects to hold off on making code public until it's reached a certain level of stability. I'm guessing they're not interested in accepting patches, due to the high level of churn from the dev team. Once that churn dies down, there's a chance they'll reconsider and make it FOSS.

I've seen this in a number of FOSS projects, and it's also what I do on my own (I don't want help until I'm happy with the base functionality).

So that's why I hold out hope. We'll see once the churn on that internal SDK repo dies down.

[-] ammonium@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Why go through all the hoops if they are instead just could refuse patches? Open source doesn't mean open to contributions, look at SQLite for example.

If they had the idea to release this open source they would have said so in clear words by now. They didn't so I don't have much hope, unless maybe if they get enough negative publicity to change their mind.

Why does VC need to ruin everything...

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