Critics for Protox. Kindly listen to user
Hi dear developer of Protox. 1st of all I would like to introduce my self: I'm the poster of this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/InsightIM/Tok-Android/issues/7
I read your replay in the above link. Then I read this repository & I would like to give my critics to you, wishing that you will listen to me as a brother.
Dear developer:
- you - as a developer of such secure program that it's goal is security & anonymity - you should not has such opposition to F-Droid extreme open source insistence ! I'm really shocked when read your replies in one of previous thread that posted about shipment of this application to F-Droid ! As long as you develop such security + anonymity tool (client for Tox protocol) you should apply extreme open source line. Such negative position from your side will put question mark on the whole work ...
- you currently do very dangerous & never accepted approach to upload binary (apk package) of your program on 3rd party service (non-GitLab). Moreover, you using the worst choice: Google drive !! How you trust them that they not modifying the packages ?! You said that the problem is in the big size of your apk package which is beyond upper accepted limit of GitLab ... Okay, what about GitHub ? It certainly accept large file sizes - look for this page & size of binary packages on it, just as an example: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases How you do not shift your work from GitLab to GitHub ?? Look for this developer, who like you try to develop a Tox client for Android: https://github.com/evilcorpltd/aTox Again, look for size of his binary packages (apk): https://github.com/evilcorpltd/aTox/releases
Make your binaries available to people by uploading them to 3rd party cloud service is not secure at all & destroy any trust by such binaries ...
Kindly, listen for voices of peoples that like to use your program BUT ... !!