Flathub, initial proposal

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Robert McQueen 

Hi all,

first of all, apologies for taking forever to respond here, I've been
busy with holidays, work and life as they say.

> 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.

We have a bunch of free CPU we can spend on building, but I suspect
we'll quickly run into limitations on storage.  We do have some hundreds
of gigs free, but once people start building lots of paks, we need
somewhere to store them.  It'll also require somebody to champion the
project, I'm happy to get a VM running with resources, but it needs
somebody to write and maintain the service.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are