Tootle new upstream

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WHEREAS tootle upstream repo was archived long ago
WHEREAS it was on github, anyway
and WHEREAS it still works great on purism librem 5s

We are forking tootle, and are looking for any tootle librem users to contribute (including bug reports) to our repo instead of the dead upstream one.

http://gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion/themusicgod1/tootle

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bleakgrey/tootle - GotHub (on my GotHub instance)

There is a new upstream repository maintained by GNOME that does not require using the Tor Browser on a separate x86 device to contribute to it.

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oh perfect, people should use that then.

it would be helpful if the librem 5 got that version rather than the github one :wink:

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Create an issue on Purism’s GitLab CE repository about it:

Or create a separate topic in the Feedback category:

Alternatively, send an email to Purism:

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Any reason to not use Tuba (also a Tootle fork)?

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Tuba is much slower than Tootle. At least on my Librem 5. Edit: Forgot Tuba is released via Flatpak/Snap, so Crimson probably isn’t a factor.
However, I count Flatpak only releases as a minus. Also keeping the source in Microsoft GitHub is a minus.

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Because of the “whereas” statements, Is there a motion on the floor?

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To fork tootle?

Which I guess is moot since it has already been done.

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it’s broken and unusable for me shrug

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for people to switch to my fork but it’s made mostly moot by the existence of a gnome fork.

There is still some virtue in my fork existing because

gnome requires that you have either { gmail, github, gitlab.com, or gnome keycloak } and although i unfortunately have a gmail account i prefer to not use it with parties that do not already have it (purism has it because i had to give them an email to buy my purism device). Also iirc gnome has a code of conduct which my fork will not. though “people without gmail/gitlab.com/gnomekeycloak or github accounts/who don’t agree to gnome’s code of conduct” is a smaller group than “purism librem 5 users, generally”.

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In addition, requiring Librem 5 users to have a separate x86 device to access your Tor Onion Service with the Tor Browser unnecessarily increases hardware requirements and reduces accessibility. At the very minimum, I suggest providing a clearnet URL with an Onion-Location header towards the Tor Onion Service:

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You don’t need to access onion services with a tor browser, torify+git (both installable on librem 5s) will work just fine. no idea where this x86-only stuff is coming from.

I don’t run the git forge at gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion i am just a user

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Okay, thank you for providing instructions.

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It looks to me like gnome offers those as (posibly unacceptable) alternatives to signing in directly to gnome’s gitlab, but that it is possible to open a gnome gitlab account with an email somewhere other than gmail that can be signed into directly. It’s seems that most third party gitlab sites are like that and it’s a good idea to get used to looking for that “or”.

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