Flathub, initial proposal

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 17:00 +0100, Robert McQueen 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.

True. Historically its been somewhat hard to get things set up on fd.o
(constant lack of admin resources), but if we have hardware and network
that is a good resource we should use.

Tollef, what kind of hardware are we walking about here? Is it just
idling currently, or is this something already in use?