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PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My policy with open source projects like these is to fork the repo and only bring in upstream updates when I'm certain it's safe and necessary

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you're really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

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[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 3 points 9 months ago*

that's probably what I might do and build apks myself with forgejo. and/or pull in nel0x's fork instead and build from his code.

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