• “Faster updates” must mean app syncing repos, not the release speed.

    Release speed, IME, is dominated by the volunteer’s ability to approve changes. Will improving the repo format speed up the approval process?

    • Hirom@beehaw.orgOP
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      2 years ago

      To be fair, if syncing the repo takes 3 minutes, it means it’ll take more time before the update start installing, and finish installing.

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    1 year ago

    I wrote my dissertation on pretty much this very problem 19 years ago. Maybe someone read it in the university library ha!