Flathub, initial proposal

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:00 AM Robert McQueen <rob at endlessm.com> wrote:

> On 30/08/16 15:20, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I imagine a web service that you create an account on, somewhat similar
> > to say github or the ubuntu PPA service. Your account gets access to a
> > per-user ostree repository, and you can create projects and upload
> > builder json manifests for them. These get automatically build on
> > several arches and you can pull the builds for testing. Once the build
> > is working you can click a button to push them to a stable repository
> > that you can tell your users to pull from.
> ...
> > One very important issue is where to host this initially. I want to
> > bring this up with the Gnome Foundation as a start, but we may also
> > want to talk to e.g. Digital Ocean for hosting. They seem to be
> > sponsoring a lot of free software stuff.
>
> Freedesktop.org itself has some pretty large boxes donated by the likes
> of HP, Intel and Google, hosted for free with plentiful bandwidth from
> Portland State Uni. It might be worth also chatting with the fd.o
> sysadmin folks (CC'd Tollef) to see if that might be a worthwhile angle
> to pursue.
>

Since I live in Portland, I'm happy to work with anybody from Portland
State.  (my alma mater I might add :-)

sri


>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> ........................................................................
>
> Robert McQueen  |  +1.415.413.4159  |  Endless <http://endlessm.com/>
> _______________________________________________
> xdg-app mailing list
> xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/attachments/20160831/9fb1d8ec/attachment.html>