Re: Criteria for Android applications

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-08-22 02:48, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:50:19 +0200
> David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> wrote:
>> Denis, I linked to
>> https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications#FSDG-compliant
>> in
>> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant#F-Droid_disclaimer
>>
>> I think it would be useful if
>> https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications
>> linked back to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant
>> because 1) About half of the apps run on GNU/Linux distros 2) they are
>> easy to use 3) they are popular.
> I've done that.

Thanks. I changed the section name to
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant#Collaboration_with_Replicant


>  Though we still need to add all the infos from the
> "Criteria for Android applications" thread and all our discussion back
> inside that Replicant wiki page. Feel free to modify it and/or to ping
> us on IRC if you don't have wiki edition permissions yet.

My user: https://redmine.replicant.us/users/4875

Also, I made you an admin on the FSD after I discovered your edits.

>
>> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant might be a good
>> collection for the Replicant project wish to set up a first
>> FSDG-compliant mini-repository. For starters, it would be nice if
>> those apps were either approved or rejected in
>>
>> https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications#FSDG-compliant
> As I understand from the thread we'd need to make sure that these
> applications can be compiled and review the source code off all the
> dependencies and the dependencies of the dependencies.
>
> RepWiFi was made, probably with only free software, for Replicant by a
> Replicant user who seems to know well Java, so it's probably the
> easiest application to review.
>
> It might even have been compiled on Replicant at some point. If we find
> trace of that and that we double check that it had no other
> dependencies it should be FSDG compliant.
>
> On my side I also need to also get more familiar with the Free
> Software Directory as I don't know (yet) what information can be added
> on software. Though I'm familiar with the Wikidata project that also has
> a similar goal (store statements about things in a database) but it has
> a much broader scope.
>
> Denis.