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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by shermozle on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:18AM (#22986608)
Nope. Why is it normal to take a few weeks to release the source? If it's good enough to release its good enough o publish openly.

This government has ample form. If you want my recommendation you need to open it up.

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by rstuart4133 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @06:35PM (#22990907)
Firstly, it is not normal in the open source world. Hell, it's not even normal open source projects owned large companies that are the foundation for a major product - like Android. Secondly, as the story points out, it is a fork of an open source app that is already on github. It's not like the infrastructure for it isn't already set up - they just had to do a git clone, and then use standard CI techniques

Maybe the OP isn't familiar with the modern software engineering techniques we now use to improve quality.

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by jamesjansson on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:34AM (#22993148)
If the source code is ALREADY released, what is the harm in immediately releasing the fork? Immediate public release of forks IS common practice.
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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by barbs on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:31PM (#22991281)
Especially since the upstream project appears to be GPL-licensed. Sure, they could have contacted the original developer and obtained a different license, but why would they do that? As far as we can tell, it looks like a breach of the license.
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