Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
Software crafter and digital punker keen on open source, iOS and Android apps. Interested in software ecodesign, privacy and accessibility too. pylapersonne.info
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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Is there still no open source alternative to replacing Google Play Services?6·2 months agoAn app? Nope. For notifications, there is open source alternatives to Google and Apple services but it is used in the apps side, not users side. Have a look on microG and Open GApps to flash in your Android device; it might help you.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Petition Attempts to Force OSI to Release Complete Vote Count14·3 months agoIt seems the “radical” organisations like the FSF or the OES were right and more legitimate in the end.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Alternative open source frontend for Instagram?2·7 months agoEnshitification made third-party apps disappeared. Prefer true open source project instead like Pixelfed for example.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Programming@programming.dev•How do i ask for contributors to my open source projects?7·7 months agoBe sure also the issues you have in your project have the suitable labels to help future contributors to pick easily some of them, i.e. labels like “help wanted” or “good first issue”.
You can also refer to best practices listed and explained for example in Advent of Open Source so as to have a nice and user-friendly repo: https://adventofopensource.com/
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Programming@programming.dev•Is there a way to hide dependabot commits in the history of a repo?21·9 months agoBTW I hope any project won’t increase the Z version only by including Dependabot commits, it would be insane. Release must be documented, tested, with CHANGELOG updated. If some maintainers just accept Dependabot commits without checking, move away. That’s just simple crappy auto-merge.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Best Alternatives to GitHub?6·9 months agoWhatever the solution behind is, if you have the resources, move to something self-hosted. Open core or not, if that topic matters to you, you might need something you can own and control. BTW, have a look on Forgejo, Codeberg and Gitea: these are the solutions I see when people look for something FLOSS, not open core, and maybe self-hostable.
It depends of the project in fact. You should reach the community and maintainers by joining them in their Discord / Slack / Matrix / whatever. They may be able to help you.
You can create first an issue, asking for improvements and create a discussion airy the maintainers so as to know which languages are not managed yet and if they are interested in new support. Explains also why you can bring good translations (e.g. native speaker, teacher, etc). It sill help to bring confidence.
Then create a pull / merge request with the updated files. For example, strings.xml ob Android, .strings in iOS, etc. But beware, localisation is not only a matter of translations. You may have also to support new languages and formats for figures, currencies, or dates for example.
Do not use translations services. Project maintainers are able to use them, and in plenty of cases the translations are not good at all or loose details.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Alternative to Discord ?13·9 months agoI would have said in fact Matrix or XMPP-based solutions but it seems you already have spotted them. Maybe Mattermost?
It seems yet Bluesky has an Android app according to their GitHub repository (https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app). However indeed nothing mentioned about F-Droid ; maybe some alternative Mastodon clients can also deal with Bluesky?
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•What GitHub alternative do you use?16·9 months agoGitLab because for CI/CD is it far, far much user friendly and comfortable to use with GitLab CI compared to GitHub Actions and flows.
In addition I can integrate templates for CI/CD pipelines already defined with the To Be Continuous project (which is open source).
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPto Git@programming.dev•A simple cheat sheet for Git1·10 months agoI agree but the solution used for the blog hosting does not expose anything to have a nice rendering of the commands. In addition, using the time to write the command helps to understand and remember. But I agree it could be upsetting.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Question about donating to open source7·10 months agoVery interesting topic in fact, I am not sure a unique and perfect solution exists.
In fact, it depends to how much you earn, how matter does for you the project, how big it is, etc. It is a question of feelings after all.
For example you may want to donate $20 one time to a useful tool you use, but for an app you enjoy using which match your own values you may want to send each year $50. But for some people it is complicated to give money, they need to satisfy their own needs before and people don’t have all the same incomes.
FMPOV, if the project is “just a tool” it can be a $20 one shot. If I use the software daily, it can be $50 per year. Maybe more if I feel it will help.
About the transaction medium, it depends. Projects can use Liberapay, others PayPal or Open Collective, or also in-app purchases. I don’t use cryptocurrencies because of the transactions fees.
Hope it helps!
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoFYI the bug has been fixed 😁
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoFeel free to submit an issue in the repository 😁
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoWhat do you mean? Having a quick look in the source code shows that the three languages items are plain HTML hyperlinks. I am not used to front web development, could you bring more details please?
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoIt seems there is an issue with language selector for small width screens. A bug declaration has been submitted to the original GitHub repository: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Tota11ylost/issues/2 Thank you for your comments!
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoIt seems there are troubles maybe with mobile view port. Feel free to report a bug on their GitHub repository ; the web site must provide somehow French, English and Spanish content.
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devOPMto Accessibility@programming.dev•An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities1·11 months agoFeel free to report a bug on their GitHub repository ; the web site must provide somehow French, English and Spanish content.
Did you have a look on ethical licenses? For example, Coraline Ada Hemke who created the Contributor Covenant (famous code of conduct) started few years ago the Organisation for Ethical Source promoting “ethical” licenses defined by seven principles.
So in fact this third family of licenses is not open source nor free (as defined by OSI and FSF), nevertheless I feel some needs or willings in your side to go, let’s say, “one step further”.
In ethical licenses you can find for example 999 ICU, ACAB, Anti-Capitalist, Peer Production, Hippocratic or some BSD 3-Clause variants about nuclear topics.
You can also have a look on that slidedeck (in French, sorry).