Re: Clarifications regarding GNOME Online Accounts

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 2:57 PM, Nathan Graule via desktop-devel-list 
<desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> A solution would be for distribution package maintainers to use the
> binary tarball as a base instead of sources - this way the build can 
> be
> done with secrets (ie. using GitLab CI and environment variable
> secrets) and sent to distributions for packaging. This certainly puts
> GNOME in a unique position in the landscape, though it allows for 
> GNOME
> to control the build process in such a way that build secrets become
> possible.
>
> Though if this is the way it goes, be sure to be prepared for all the
> "GNOME forbids people to build their software stack" headlines,
> followed by a "actually the reason is that they needed to handle
> secrets in their builds in order to support client keys for the 
> various
> integrations in the software" in the third paragraph.

Well yeah... but distros will never allow that.

Michael