Publish LibreSignal in official F-Droid repository

[PanderMusubi]

Please, publish LibreSignal in F-Droid repository. For some of my contacts it has been a huge step to switch to F-Droid. Having them add repositories without fingerprint will only add confusion and result in less trust. Publishing LibreSignal in F-Droid will increase the use base quickly and eventually lessen the burden to maintain a separate repo.

PS I know F-Droid is designed to add repo's manually, but if all apps have their own repo, the entire idea of an app store is gone.

[xmikos]

This will sadly not happen. Signal already has been in official F-Droid repo in the past (for a brief time), but it has been removed because Moxie Marlinspike (author of Signal) didn't like it and demanded it to be removed.

[PanderMusubi]

Just heard about this:

commit 1669731329bcc32c84e33035a67a2fc22444c24b
Author: Moxie Marlinspike
Date:   Mon Feb 20 12:00:03 2017 -0800
Support for using Signal without Play Services
This is now possible with beta calling, so non-GCM users are a
part of beta calling by default.

[anarcat]

Update: I have moved this comment to the public OWS community forum since it seems like the right forum for this discussion.

[Be-ing]

Thanks for the detailed summary @anarcat .

[herbsmn]

@xmikos can you open this issue back up since @anarcat wrote that report? or should they publish the report elsewhere?

[xmikos]

@herbsmn I have reopened it, but I am not completely sure if this is proper place to discuss it.

[Be-ing]

Moxie just commented on the commit outlining what he wants before releasing official APKs outside of the Google Play Store.

[anarcat]

alright - i updated my comment above with the relevant changes. i also opened a new thread in the OWS forum about this. i would have preferred moving my lengthy comment there and close the discussion here, but i wasn't able to post the full thing because I was limited to 10 links as a new user, probably a sort of anti-spam measure...

update: the restrictions were lifted, and i have moved the post there. I guess we can close this again now?