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Re:ElementaryOS - The thoughtful, capable and ethical replac... by themafia on Saturday October 11, 2025 @07:20PM (#45553617)
> We review all AppCenter apps to ensure they’re properly using permissions

Who is "we?" How is that team selected? Are their decisions public? What is the review or appeal process like?

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Re:ElementaryOS - The thoughtful, capable and ethical replac... by DanRabbit on Saturday October 11, 2025 @07:36PM (#45553731)
“We” is just our developer community. Folks that have write access to our git repos.

We manage AppCenter reviews as pull requests to a public git repository: https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-reviews

There’s some more documentation for developers here: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/appcenter/publishing-requ...

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