cketti @cketti@fosstodon.org
Open source developer, @k9mail maintainer. Berlin, Germany.
Joined Feb 2020
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I've been thinking about doing a recurring livestream of me working through some of backlock of F-Droid app inclusions.
Would anyone be interested in watching this?
@ashwinvis @silmathoron @k9mail The app was "removed" ("suspended" probably describes it more accurately, but "removed" is the terminology they use) by Google, we updated the description, waited half a day for Google to approve the change, and now the app is back on Google Play.
@josias @Phaserune @craftyguy @k9mail Android allows sideloading apps and hence isn't a "walled garden". Apps in software repositories (app stores) are always subject to rules set out by the people operating the repository. F-Droid is just much better than Google Play at enforcing their rules.
@craftyguy @k9mail It's 2020, how are people still shocked that randomly enforcing rules without prior notice are leading to obvious reactions by developers and users alike?
This isn't the first time. And I'm sure the app will be available again soon.
Still, it's very annoying. You'd think a track record of 10+ years of non-malicious behavior would buy you at least another set of eyes before the app is removed.
@yarmo "The app's full description contains improper formatting (including but not limited to repetitive or unrelated keywords or references)"
Google removed @k9mail from the Play Store without prior notice because they objected to the following text in the app description (that has been the same for more than a year):
(People sometimes call K-9: K9, K9 Mail, K-9 Email, K9 Email, K9 E-Mail, k9mail or k9email.)
I am happy to report that my changes to the #Kotlin IDEA plugin have been merged. In the future the parameter info popup will be much more useful when using named arguments 🥳
I wrote a short blog post that explains why you might want to avoid the common 'Intent.resolveActivity() then startActivity()' pattern when targeting Android 11.
Yesterday I read through 161 comments on a feature request of another project to find out what design considerations went into their implementation. Took me almost an hour. About a third of the comments didn't add any value and could have been skipped 😞
@philipwhite I do hide them right away and trust the intended recipient will get the email notification. I've never tested this, though 😃
I wrote a short blog post on why as an open source maintainer I sometimes hide GitHub issue comments.
https://cketti.de/2020/07/07/why-i-hide-github-issue-comments/
"A Warm Welcome to ASN.1 and DER" is a really nice introduction to the topic. It also gives a good idea of why writing a DER parser is so error-prone.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/a-warm-welcome-to-asn1-and-der/
@MonkeyMatt @k9mail Welcome to the Fediverse 👋
If you're interested in contributing to @k9mail you might also want to hang out in the channel #k-9 on the Freenode IRC network.
@Bubu Wait. That seems to be outdated. Maybe this one: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/studio-master-dev/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib
