Comment by skyzouwdev
2 days ago
That’s a tough one. It’s ironic that the very platform meant to keep apps open and accessible is now bottlenecked by outdated hardware.
Upgrading the build farm CPUs seems like the obvious fix, but I’m guessing funding and coordination make it less straightforward. In the meantime, forcing devs to downgrade AGP or strip baseline profiles just to ship feels like a pretty big friction point.
Long term, I wonder if F-Droid could offer an optional “modern build lane” with newer hardware, even if it means fewer guarantees of full reproducibility at first. That might at least keep apps from stalling out entirely.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again. Running on donations is not a viable strategy for any long-term goal. FOSS needs to passively invest the donations. That is a viable long-term strategy. Now when things like this happen, it becomes a major line item moment, and not a limp-along situation, with yet another WE NEED YOUR HELP banner blocking off 1/2 their website.