Minutes, 2017 04 24

Attendees

A bit WIP
We make a request against the "requests" repository under flathub
Need to update the wiki page with the new process
- ACTION: Matthias to look into this
How to improve this?
- Hard to figure out something that works with the github flow
Would be cool to test the builds before they're submitted
- Alex added a way to ask buildbot to build a specific request, with a github comment
  - At the moment, this is only available to the people in the flathub organization, and they need to manually click a button
- ACTION: look at connecting this to github comments

Need to be discussed with the GNOME release team
We need to sort out repository migration story if we move them around
- Could use a "tombstone" commit of some sort
  - But there's more complications related to GPG keys in the migration
We'll have to change something in how the manifests are published
ACTION: Carlos to investigate how to move forward with this

Allan talked to Andrea and he's interested
What do we need most urgently from sysadmin time?
- Maintenance, but Alex should be driving the requirementes probably

Progress on adding the Telegram build on Flathub
- For that we need to integrate the KDE runtime in the builder too, which may be the only remaining item holding this up at this point
Allan has draft email to reach out to wider community soon

Are we at the point where we can start publicizing the website/asking people to contribute applications?
- We could also publish a list of "wanted" applications for people that want to start contributing
  - Like a "GNOME goal", we could have a list of applications
There are already good write-ups as to why Flatpak is a good technology/etc if needed
We can also involve the Solus maintainers, since they are adopting Flatpak exclusively

We could have an RSS feed on the Flathub website itself
Right now there's no way to figure out which applications are available
- gnome-software in master can do this by searching for the repository name
Allan: The most interesting thing in the immediate term would be to highlight new applications
- Far in the future: having a way in gnome-software to see new applications
- More in the short term: having something in the website/twitter announcing when something new is available, so people can test it
Are we comfortable talking about Flathub on e.g. twitter?
- Not just whether we're technically ready for it, but also from a legal perspective
  - At the moment there's no legal structure for liability
  - ACTION: Allan to reach out to RobMcQueen/Neil for updates on this
    - One of the things we may need is a contract with the ISP delineating the responsibilities

Needs adjustments to design and more metadata possibly, but TBD what exactly at this point