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Michael Hall edited this page Feb 28, 2018 · 1 revision

Flathub call, Nov 23rd 2017

Attendees

  • Alex
  • Allan
  • Bartlomiej
  • Florian
  • Jorge
  • Joaquim (for 5 mins)
  • Patrick
  • Rob

Minutes

  • Joaquim is planning to write a Flathub-friendly version of Endless
  • Jorge asks whether we can focus on launch / goals with a press release - provide numbers, developers, apps, users, etc - unveil new apps website - encourage users and developers
    • what would we need?
      • webapp for apps
      • infrastructure ready
        • monitoring
        • high availability - backups? yes for hosts/config, not reliable for repo (TLS timeouts!)
        • mirrors - set up repo.flathub.org as the repo frontend so we can replicate that on different servers as needed (separate that from the flathub.org) (prio #2)
        • config/system management
      • developer documentation - eg electron app, video tutorial, etc
      • terms of service
      • clarify owner/responsibility to manage expectations, liability, etc
      • submission guidelines - what applications, legal/ethical constraints, etc?
    • stack overflow so that google finds solutions when we help people - IRC stuff is transient
    • track metrics like tweets, users, traffic, etc
    • future economical sustainability - patreon? paypal? etc
    • promotion of project - make it "healthy" - blog (eg medium) - publish updates, etc - see https://angular.io/ -> Blog maintained by posts from the team
    • missing "must have" apps?
    • statistics
      • interesting to app developers? could discourage people if we share small numbers / too early?
      • how to get the logs into one place to analyse? anonymise IP without losing geoloc info? hook the hash -> ref stuff up to the log rotate handler?
    • set up flatpak website w/ SSL (sysadmin prio #1)
    • quality checking for app stream data - icons, release tags, etc
    • website - include consultants who can help w/ Flatpak support?
    • submission flow - working OK?
      • online hosting/sharing of build artifacts for test builds, to help with development
      • extra data validate at build time - check URL, size, hash, etc
    • migration issues
      • moving from one repo to another (gnome -> flathub)
      • app ID changing name (already happened on flathub)
    • consistency issues
      • removing an arch doesn't stop publishing the app
    • documentation! hello world sucks. need to direct people to flatpak-builder at least. Patrick will take a look
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