[tor-bugs] #27539 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Create plan for releasing on F-Droid

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#27539: Create plan for releasing on F-Droid
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, TorBrowserTeam201902,    |  Actual Points:
  TBA-8.5                                        |
Parent ID:  #26318                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor8
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:14 sysrqb]:
 > quick update here. I like this plan in theory, where we run our own repo
 and publish updates on f-droid.org and our own. My main worry is our
 ability for running more services like this as an organization. I think
 this is something we can think about more and make plans for in the (not
 too distant) future - maybe. In the meantime, I'd like to get f-droid.org
 builds working now.
 >
 > I currently have a metadata file ready and it successfully builds tor
 browser using tor-browser-build within a fdroidserver instance I installed
 locally.

 Nice. One thing that makes me nervous with that idea is that we don't have
 a good way to test if any of the changes we make to `tor-browser-
 build`/`rbm` would suddenly break in an f-droid environment. I don't want
 to find that out while doing a critical release. Not sure if f-droid
 supports something like try pushes to test that. Or maybe we should add
 that as part of our nightly builds.

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