This is great that they’re forking but do that have to continue the OSS tradition of terrible app names?
The name was voted by the community. There were a lot of very good names that unfortunately were already being used by other projects. I'm not a fan of the final choice either.
When you hold a vote you get suggestions like Mappy mcmapface. Actually, that could work....
And, It’s not even unique.
On the iOS App Store, for example, there is:
Yes, it was pointed out that CoMaps was also the name of a business operating in... maps. So if the project gets traction, they'll likely be sued into a better name.
Yes.
"Come, try our new open-source product... Toefungus maps."
That one is at least memorable.
Magic Earth enters the chat.
CoMaps is a good name, wtf
I like the name too, but I tried searching for it and I got results for compass. Lol
I mean, it's new.
Disable your auto spellchecker!
Organic Maps had Kayak referral links since November 17, 2023.
After selecting some hotels, you can see an experimental "Details on Kayak" button that opens the Kayak website with photos and reviews about the selected hotel. If you make any booking using this button, Organic Maps receives a small referral bonus to fund the project development.
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases/tag/2023.11.17-17-android
Whats wrong with that?
Linux has a great history of splitting hairs over philosophical purity and practical practices.
Honestly, a fork is a probably a perfect panacea. The project will become a pair; one procuring funding at the price of it's soul, the other persisting as perfect (and pitifully prehistoric, save the proactive pedestrian). For a period both will produce positive momentum, but the paid product will peak higher and sooner, and fall precipitously. After the pitiable putrid product performs as well as pious poop, the persistent one will proceed to provide.
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There, FTFY.
😗🤌Perfectíon
Because if there is proprietary code that is compiled, but can't be read, it's hard to know if there is data harvesting that people can't opt out of. And proprietary code being added paves the way for more proprietary code. If this is an incorrect understanding, someone correct me.
I dont trust someone who has affiliate links in code to not be selling unique identifiers like ip adresses etc.
So when does it show its head in F-Droid ?
Their README.md says soon but there isn't an official release yet. Looking at their Issues tab, they are doing a lot of work.
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases
Build instructions are available. I am excited and might just do this:
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/docs/INSTALL.md#android-app
"User-first" and "public company" don't go together at all. That's just the reality. Now we just have to hope the fork doesn't die.
Does it work outside of CO?
Slowclap
Colombia only? Can’t imagine.
Roman @rtsisyk revoked Github owner permissions from Alexander @biodranik and Viktor @vng and granted such permissions to the community contributor @pastk. This triggered Github's automatic "sanctions" check and the whole Github OM organization was automatically archived and admin access was blocked until OM's appeal was reviewed. It was unknown whether and when Github would review Organic Maps' appeal and unblock the repositories, so 2 weeks later the project migrated to the self-hosted git.omaps.dev/organicmaps instance, using the free and open source software forge Forgejo.
What the fuck? GitHub blocking the account because of automated security evaluation triggering (probably a good thing) but no review over two weeks (obviously a very bad thing)?
Please ELI5. What does this mean?
There's going to be a similar app to Organic Maps (which was a fork of MAPS.ME). Unknown yet if it is going to be better or worse.
What are you referring to? The reasons to fork, what a fork/forking process is, or what it means for this project?
Contributors disagreed with how the project was run and controlled. They committed to run their own project based on the other project. With more collaborative ownership and governance.
Being a private corporation should have given up the scam.
itsfoss would have mentioned that if they weren't also a private corporation.
Damn.
I absolutely hate open source drama. I don't want to read your diary when I use your software, I want it to work.
I'm not even against running a parallel for-profit for extra features or corporate sponsorships. People gotta eat. I'd much rather have that than deal with following sob stories about ruthless leadership, ego clashes in contributors and endless forking because everybody thinks everybody else sucks.
The more I hang out around here, where OSS is a bit of a religion, the more disenchanted I am with it and the more I think the big game changer for this space is getting contributions on usability, production and business rather than code.
What you call drama is a healthy community fighting against violated principles. So, according to you, what's the alternative? Just keep working with broken principles and never complain? Allow a bunch of greedy members to take over the project?
If you have paid attention, basically community always win: libreoffice vs openoffice, mariadb over mysql, jenkins over hudson, x.org over xfree86, ffmpeg over libav, nextcloud over owncloud, etc.
Right to fork is one of the most important to keep project in community hands and follow declared principles. Some forget that and are just doomed to repeat the history.
Disclaimer: I work on iDempiere who forked adempiere because of community disagreements, which also forked from compiere because of corporative takeout.
Long live to CoMaps!
These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.
That thing is definitely a problem though.
But it's a problem for the team, not the user, right? It's one of those things where in closed software it's either... well, the point of the thing, or if it isn't people would get quietly fired and move on trying to impact the perception of the product as little as possible.
Here it impacts the product in that you may have to learn about it, learn about the fork and transition to the fork. There's no separation between the HR/organizational issues and the software issues, and that's a bit of a problem, I think, and why it reads as frequent drama.
I think it's a people issue rather than FOSS issue. People interested in this stuff are just like that.
That's depressing for different reasons, but still a bummer.
I am going to fork to. Co co maps
That's a shame it's one of three things i use on my phone. Thanks for the update im waiting for a ios release now.
🤢 that's pretty bad. Glad I happened to catch this.
Cause i had to go looking for it: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps
did I understand this right that nothing’s changed until they have their own OpenCollective fiscal host?
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