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	As part of this grant, I've been becoming a sort of "Maintainer-in-Residence" [[12]](https://lwn.net/Articles/864472/). My role in F-Droid is mostly unchanged and my workflow is already established, working with F-Droid Data, RFPs and the Forum. This includes: * Triaging issues and merge requests * Build-testing apps and offering developer feedback * Reporting issues found while using the client/server * Answering questions and managing users on the F-Droid forums * Attending weekly dev meetings * Reviewing news posts * Ținerea la zi a traducerii în limba Română!
	It took some time to organize being able to work full-time on F-Droid as well as getting past the initial feelings of amazement that doing this work full-time is possible.
	"Maintaining" means to keep up or carry on, to continue, to provide support, and it's something to be celebrated. Others agree too [[13]](https://github.com/github/maintainermonth) but the FFWD grant will cover only part of this year and when those funds run out I'll need to look for other income sources to be able to continue contributing the time [[14]](https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/05/07/the-truth-behind-open-source-apps/) I spend on F-Droid.
	The F-Droid Donations [[15]]({{ site.baseurl }}/donate/) page lists all the ways that one can contribute: be it Euro or Dollar, be it directly through banks or via digital services, be it via Github Sponsors or decentralized crypto currencies. And these can be done as one-time donations or recurring ones. They say _"it takes a village"_ ( right? ) hence if there's a will to help, like the villagers' nutritious and tasty additions/offerings to the _"stone soup"_ there are plenty of means and occasions to do so.
	Adding up the weekly donations to F-Droid from all sources, we are receiving about €460 per week. To allow me to sustain my work here, the goal is to raise about €1,200 per week. We have _"no user accounts, by design"_ [[16]]({% post_url 2022-02-28-no-user-accounts-by-design %}) so we can't count how many of you are using F-Droid, but by interacting with some users and developers we know there are many out there. If users donate just a small bit, this goal will be reached quite quickly.
	[Click here to Donate to F-Droid!]({{ site.baseurl }}/donate/)	[חדרי הצ׳אט של F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/about/#contact)
	We also appreciate you spreading the word about F-Droid, so feel free to mention us on the [Fediverse](https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg), talk with us in the [Forums](https://forum.f-droid.org/) or [join the discussions]({{ site.baseurl }}/about/#contact) via your protocol of choice.
	Our build and release infrastructure, and upcoming updates
	Behind the scenes of F-Droid is a giant pile of automation to manage the process of building thousands of apps from source. This means checking out thousands of source repos, checking them all for updates, building and new releases, and securely signing them en masse. All builds are run in a fresh virtual machine guest instance known as the [_buildserver_](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/tree/master/buildserver). All Gradle binaries and Android SDK packages are verified against our [public](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/android-sdk-transparency-log) [logs](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/gradle-transparency-log) of observed SHA-256 checksums. The transparency log processes also verify against upstream's [public checksums](https://gradle.org/release-checksums/).
	Our setup runs on Debian almost exclusively. Debian is a leader in free software, rock solid servers, and reproducible builds. That makes it a natural home for F-Droid. We also work to ensure we maintain the packages we use, and build our processes on top of Debian packages. That means we share the maintenance with anything that uses Debian. It may seem like more work to give back, but our experience is that it pays off in the long run. The F-Droid community is able to maintain many things with a small team. Another example of this is this website itself: it is built using Jekyll packages that are all in Debian.
	If you have an app on f-droid.org, you might have noticed that all builds happen on a 5 year old Debian release: _stretch_. We are in the midst of a [big effort](https://gitlab.com/groups/fdroid/-/milestones/5) to upgrade to the latest _bullseye_ release right now. This is not just a simple `apt-get upgrade`, we are also taking this opportunity to overhaul the build process so that app builds work with a relatively plain Debian install as the base OS. We have to provide a platform to build thousands of apps, so we cannot just upgrade the base image as often as we like. Some apps need the latest, greatest. Other apps need the ancient, stable base OS. This change means that the [metadata]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/Build_Metadata_Reference) contains as much of the build logic as possible, so that the app maintainer has control over all the steps. To achieve this, as much as possible is being stripped out of the from the _buildserver_ base image.

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