Thoughts welcome on the usefulness of this proposal: https://twitter.com/OpenITP/status/514836088511537152
Quick summary is: Today, app stores don't even clearly *distinguish* open-source from closed-source apps, let alone do the builds themselves. It would be great if app stores built open-source apps directly from the public source tree, stating exactly which snapshot was used. And it would be even better if they did so with deterministic builds -- though even just knowing that the app store had done the build themselves (instead of the app's author doing it) would be a huge win, and deterministic builds would be gravy. Details in the article. -Karl -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
