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confirmedcode / Lockdown-iOS

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Last commit 4 months ago (update: repo is now newer or matching App Store iOS version) #52

Closed elisavetsky closed 3 years ago

elisavetsky commented 4 years ago

You can probably understand how this looks rather sketchy from an open source perspective. It really does seem like you’re not really working off of this repo and are instead posting really infrequent updates to to this one.

dcordero commented 4 years ago

Related to: https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/issues/38, https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/issues/14

mrichtsfeld commented 3 years ago

I recently found the app and really love it. Great way to block sneaky domains. However, I agree with all raised concerns about being way behind the official AppStore version with the source code that is published here. Maybe we can get some clear comments from the founders of this amazing project. I'm happy to contribute, but only if the changes are merged and the development is transparent. Pull requests are open for months. This is not what the Open-Source community calls Open-Source.

@hijohnnylin we would all appreciate an honest comment. Thank you

hijohnnylin commented 3 years ago

Hey folks, you are all 100% correct and I offer my sincere apology. We do need the community to make Lockdown the best it can be, and we haven't been treating community members as first-class developers.

My mistake earlier was comparing our level of openness vs other security/privacy apps that are entirely closed source (for example, McAfee, Nord, most iOS apps, etc) - but the correct comparison is comparing our openness with true OSS projects like Linux - and we are way behind in terms of openness. THEREFORE--

As of two days ago we're instituting two things:

1) Fully pushed live Mac and iOS code to match exactly what's in App Store.

2) From now on, all changes will be committed to public repository BEFORE release to App Store. See the new issues #57, #58 for examples of this. Same with Lockdown-Mac.

I know we've damaged some trust with people interested in the project due to this, but hopefully we can earn back that trust via our actions, not words.

Our goal is to expand Lockdown beyond the Firewall/VPN to become an open source, community-driven full-service privacy app for the regular user. Hope you can join us in creating that! Will close this issue in a few days if this is satisfactory.

hijohnnylin commented 3 years ago

I should also mention - we were re-audited in July 2020. See the full reports here: https://openlyoperated.org/report/confirmedvpn

hijohnnylin commented 3 years ago

hey folks, been a week since our response (and we have shipped multiple updates to iOS and Mac following these new policies). Github repo is matching app store version, and is github repo is newer when features are awaiting apple approval.

I'm closing this for now since there were no additional comments.

mrichtsfeld commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the late comment @hijohnnylin but I appreciate your honesty and looking forward to contributing to this great project.