Improve F-Droid support

[ghost]

mGerrit F-Droid version: 2.111.72

mGerrit Google Play version: 2.111.80

[JBirdVegas]

Totally cool with F-Droid hosting the app but they are removing the the analytics. We can't make them apply their patches faster. Maybe we can make a productFlavor with the analytics turned off then they should be able to build right from source. I'll look into this as an approach from our side to encourage updating but unless I'm misunderstanding what @f-droid is doing it's on them to update to the latest correct?

[p4r4n01d]

Agreed. I am happy to help any build customization for F-Droid hosting (such as a config which disables analytics) but am going to stop short of actually building and releasing to F-Droid.

[est31]

Hi again! I've prepared the 2.111.84 version for the f-droid build and the flavors patch really helped. I now don't have to touch any java code anymore. There still are some changes I did in my patch:

• Enable machines with less RAM (like me or the f-droid buildserver) to build mgerrit
• Enable machines with an older gradle to build mgerrit without the wrapper. The problem here is that f-droid doesn't use the gradle wrapper but the native system provided gradle. Maybe this is not required for the buildserver, but my local setup of f-droid only worked with that change.
• Remove the fabric dependency from the repo list. Unfortunately f-droid is very strict here, even if the repo isn't used by the flavor it detects a non-whitelisted maven repo and protests. I don't know of a way you or f-droid could solve this, but I'll open an issue with the f-droid developers about this.
• Use a jitpack build of the the rest library instead of a provided jar.

I'll provide a PR for the last change for the case you'd like to have it in upstream as well. It makes sense as its very nice towards the repo size.

[p4r4n01d]

Glad to hear that @est31! Of the changes you mentioned I am most interested in the first two points as these may be able to fix Travis and/or the release build server (jenkins), which would be great and speed up the release process.

For 'Remove the fabric dependency from the repo list': If you can find a way to have this working for both flavours, submit a PR so it can be merged into master.

I'll have a look at #57, but will need a lot of testing to make sure nothing is broken.

[est31]

Hmm, I'll do a PR with the first two points then.

[nailyk-fr]

I just ask on f-droid and told me mGerrit can't be build because of proprietary parts. Should I open a new issue or is it on the way?

Thanks