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Why are apps like Fairemail, Voyager, etc. updated so often? Why don't they collect the changes and release them once a month or something like that?

It's interesting that every time I open Voyager I see an update warnin at the bottom. Is that really required?

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

The real answee is CI/CD DevOps pipelines.

What this means is that, when I as a developer push changes to my dev branch in my code repository, a bunch of scripts and stuff automatically test my code for a bunch of things, and if all of those tests pass, another script is run that pushes the code to my main branch and then compiles my app from the main code, and finally the last script pushes the compiled "artefact" out to the public (.exe's out on a webpage to download, a linux package gets pushed out to repos and to Flathub, Android apps get pushed to the Play and/or F-Droid stores, Apple stuff gets sent to an Apple computer and compiled and uploaded to the App store, etc.)

It streamlines the development process and makes life on the developer so, so much easier while making sure bugs also get fixed for users much quicker and the app stays more stable.

[–] Tibert@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

What would be best? Dealing with a bug for 1 month waiting a monthly update, or dealing with a bug 2 days waiting a daily update?

[–] pl_woah@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

My naive butt: "I thought Google and Apple reviewed app applications for malicious code" Older me: "bahahahahaha" cries in cyber security

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

It's not required, it's really a matter of preference. Many users, me included, prefer having access to the newest features and bug fixes right away, but that also means less time to test the code for new bugs.

For another example, look at Debian vs. Arch Linux and how they are released

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 10 months ago

Some apps are a community effort with multiple contributors. Voyager is one of those. This may have been better asked in no stupid questions. Why would you not want the latest bug fixes and features immediately after they’ve been approved?

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 months ago

Because they either don't do QA or think automated tests are sufficient

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 10 months ago

It's a very nice thing to have, but I do worry about the effect this has on the EMMC storage in mobile devices, which has a finite lifetime - particularly for larger cross-platform apps, seeing as two of my previous android devices failed from worn out EMMC.

At the moment I just check F-Droid notifications and manually update each app on a biweekly basis, unless there's an urgent fix or something