What can we expect from our developers

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 21:47:51 CET Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> I think I understand where you are coming from, that all the work on
> software done here makes the more sense the more users there are. IMHO
> though reaching more users of Free Software should be done in ways and for
> platforms which are not giving more power to monopolists or those which
> seem set to become some. Flatpak, Snap, Windows, macOS... they are all
> about binaries. There is no simple way, part of the concept, to get the
> sources, patch something to one's likes and then regenerate the very same
> package, just as custom one. Or is there?

Yes, there is. They can simply use our infrastructure for this. We are doing 
much more than just providing the sources. We provide the fully functional CI/
CD machinery for building custom versions (minus digital signatures which we 
reserve for our official release artifacts).

Regards,
Ingo
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