Flathub's future

[Alexander Larsson]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:12 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Flathub,
> It's been a while since we have been collaborating from KDE with
> different aspects of Flathub.
>
> I recently had a few conversations regarding Flathub with both KDE and
> Gnome members, I'd say it's probably time we have an open discussion
> about what it is and its end goals.
>
> We can probably all agree that application distribution has been one
> of the most frustrating bits of Linux over the years and Flathub is
> trying to figure it out. Now while it's been working reasonably well,
> it's also time to look into the governance and overall future vision
> of the project to collectively assess it's what we want and how to
> make sure it lasts over the years. I personally have no idea which
> forum is responsible for it at the moment, which I'd say is quite
> telling.

The lack of forum specifically for flathub has been kind of a problem.
For example, when we have made changes in how the infrastructure works
we have not been able to get the message to packagers in a great way.
There exists a flathub-admins list, but that is really low traffic
sysadmin stuff only. Some discussion can happen in github issues and
suchlike, but this isn't a great way to communicate, nor is it having
the right reach. This is why we started the flathub discourse server
which we hope can be used for things like this. Its only just recently
been stood up and not widely used yet though.

> While I probably have some thoughts on the matter, I'm sure I'm not
> the only one. I'd suggest having a call sometime soon to discuss
> governance and vision.

I'm fine with having a call, although maybe it should have a bit more
detailed agenda than "discuss the future" so that people can prepare a
bit for it.


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