Hi all,
I would like to kick of a Fedora Flatpak Packaging SIG that meets regularly and has IRC meetings.
Our flatpaks have gotten some bad rep recently and I think for a good reason. We don't have a lot of them and we only have a handful of people working on them. We also have a fairly obvious conflict of interest with Flathub and a bunch of Fedora people are doing flatpaks in Flathub instead of Fedora and advocating against using Fedora flatpaks.
Here's an attempt to try to get more people involved :) The awkward situation here is that I am not 100% convinced myself that we should continue doing Fedora flatpaks, but maybe with a bit more organization around this we can get some more eyes on the problem and solve some of the issues.
Please put your name in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Flatpak if you are interested and I'll try to organize a poll for a weekly meeting time. I'd suggest to start the meetings on the second week of January when the holidays are over.
I've added a few people to CC that I thought might be interested in this, but anyone that has interest in the area is more than welcome to join.
[Edit: the email got rejected from the mailing list due to too many recipients so I'm re-sending it without the CC list. The CC'd people hopefully got the message already.]
Some questions I have around organization: Can someone help register the #fedora-flatpaks IRC channel under the Fedora umbrella? I am not sure how to best do that. Does matrix need any special sauce to get a room?
What would be a good name for a pagure.io project? pagure.io/fedora-flatpaks or pagure.io/fedora-flatpak-sig or pagure.io/flatpak-sig or something else?
Do we need a mailing list? My initial gut feeling is no, but I'm interested in what other people think.
If you reply to this, please make sure to reply to the devel@lists.fedoraproject.org post as I am cross-posting it to desktop@ as well.
Hi all,
Hopefully most people are back from vacations now so I think we can go on with organizing the first Flatpak SIG meeting.
I have created a whenisgood poll for the next week: https://whenisgood.net/s3rzh5h Please put your name in there and what times would work for you.
I am thinking that a weekly meeting would be too often, but maybe bi-weekly? So that we do one next week, and then again two weeks after etc. 10 people have already signed up on the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Flatpak page so I suspect it's going to be hard to make it work for everybody, but hopefully we can find something that would work for most of the group.
I'll collect the results later this week when it looks like most of the people have replied.
Thanks and Happy New Year everybody!
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:55 AM Kalev Lember kalevlember@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Hopefully most people are back from vacations now so I think we can go on with organizing the first Flatpak SIG meeting.
I have created a whenisgood poll for the next week: https://whenisgood.net/s3rzh5h Please put your name in there and what times would work for you.
I am thinking that a weekly meeting would be too often, but maybe bi-weekly? So that we do one next week, and then again two weeks after etc. 10 people have already signed up on the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Flatpak page so I suspect it's going to be hard to make it work for everybody, but hopefully we can find something that would work for most of the group.
I'll collect the results later this week when it looks like most of the people have replied.
Thanks and Happy New Year everybody!
OK, we now have a time for the first Flatpak SIG meeting. 10 people replied to the poll and we managed to find a time slot that actually works for everybody:
15:00 GMT on Monday, starting on January 23, and recurring every two weeks.
Looks like the #fedora-meeting IRC channel is available at that time so I've gone ahead and made a reservation in https://calendar.fedoraproject.org/SIGs/2023/1/23/#m10431
Some topics for the first meeting, off the top of my head: introductions, why do we need to do Fedora Flatpaks, how to handle openh264, announcements.
See you all there!
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 4:30 PM Kalev Lember kalevlember@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:55 AM Kalev Lember kalevlember@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Hopefully most people are back from vacations now so I think we can go on with organizing the first Flatpak SIG meeting.
I have created a whenisgood poll for the next week: https://whenisgood.net/s3rzh5h Please put your name in there and what times would work for you.
I am thinking that a weekly meeting would be too often, but maybe bi-weekly? So that we do one next week, and then again two weeks after etc. 10 people have already signed up on the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Flatpak page so I suspect it's going to be hard to make it work for everybody, but hopefully we can find something that would work for most of the group.
I'll collect the results later this week when it looks like most of the people have replied.
Thanks and Happy New Year everybody!
OK, we now have a time for the first Flatpak SIG meeting. 10 people replied to the poll and we managed to find a time slot that actually works for everybody:
15:00 GMT on Monday, starting on January 23, and recurring every two weeks.
Looks like the #fedora-meeting IRC channel is available at that time so I've gone ahead and made a reservation in https://calendar.fedoraproject.org/SIGs/2023/1/23/#m10431
Some topics for the first meeting, off the top of my head: introductions, why do we need to do Fedora Flatpaks, how to handle openh264, announcements.
I've created the https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/fedora-flatpaks-sig to gather topics for the agenda there.
Tom
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