I am testing the following Lemmy Clients, and I don’t know yet what is the best for me.

  • Summit
  • Blorp
  • Jerboa
  • Thunder

I do need your help to decide. Summit I didn’t find it in f-droid, I installed it from the play store. Is Summit open source?

This l wrote with Summit

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Is Summit open source?

    searches

    Huh.

    It has a GitHub project, but that project has no source in it. It’s hosting the compiled releases, but no source.

    https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy

    I don’t see anything actually saying that it it is open source.

    EDIT: Each release does appear to be bundled with a source tarball. I guess that the author just isn’t…actually using the git functionality of GitHub to version-control it. shrugs

    EDIT2: Nope. That source tarball just contains an essentially-empty copy of a snapshot of the GitHub git repo. It’s not a “real” source tarball.

        • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          There’s some history behind it. First the author didn’t want to have it open source, iirc due to some bad experiences with having their source code open? Don’t remember exactly. The repo you linked existed for bug reporting basically. Then later on this changed and the source code got released. I still don’t know if the author is interested in getting public contributions to the codebase.

          Regardless, the author makes some very pleasant software, and is super responsive at fixing issues/implementing feature requests. Hats entirely off to them.

          • idunnololz@lemmy.world
            6·
            17 hours ago

            Thank you. A few corrections/clarifications here:

            1. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy was created because some users wanted an alternative to Google Play Store and so I made that repo to publish APKs back when Summit was closed source. This also has synergy with Obtanium. The repository is still actively used today. New releases are automatically built and published to that repository as APKs.
            2. Bug reports should be made to !summit@lemmy.world. I rarely check the Github for issues (sorry).
            3. One of the reasons why it was closed source was because I didn’t want to accept contributions. That has not changed, and likely will never change unless I retire the project. Especially now when vibe code is rampant.
            • Ruben Storm@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              8 hours ago

              If you have it FOSS the community can check it and you gain more trust.

              Summit is in my closer circle of apps am looking at maybe using. Why don’t you put it on f-droid as play store alternative?

    • SGH@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 day ago

      The source tarball is always autogenerated from the git repository state at the release point’s commit.