Dear community,

dear upstream developers,

dear F-Droid staffers,

after more than three and a half years as lead (and most of the time sole)

app maintainer, I “retire” from F-Droid.

I don’t use Android myself anymore – don’t you worry, I don’t use any less

free systems either – so my own interest and motivation are low. Also, I

really think maintainers should indeed be users of the “product”, they should

dogfood it and actually care about the whole platform.

Given some dissent about the way to handle upcoming challenges (like complex

builds, app developers eager to use latest pre-release stuff from Google and

how to monitor all the stuff builds (and Google itself) start pulling in at

buildtime etc.), I and my personal believes about software might also hinder

F-Droid’s further success: Newer generation always have a different

view on “values”, on techniques, on problem-solving, so these new problems

might need fresh people to solve them.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to “train” a successor. While we had and have some

very talented, dedicated people that do have my trust, I really hope some of

you will help spreading the workload and join their ranks soon.

It has been my great privilege and pleasure to be part of this. Thanks for the

past years and as always: patches welcome

Yours

Boris Kraut