Flathub: The State of the Union

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1. Flathub: The State of the Union Bartłomiej Piotrowski
2. Flathub: The State of the Union Bartłomiej Piotrowski
3. What Flathub tries to solve?
4. Name: hello Version: 2.10 Release: 1%{?dist} Summary: The "Hello World" program from GNU License: GPLv3+ URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name} Source0: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/% {name}-%{version}.tar.gz BuildRequires: gettext Requires(post): info Requires(preun): info %description The "Hello World" program, done with all bells and whistles of a proper FOSS project, including configuration, build, internationalization, help files, etc. %prep %autosetup %build %configure %make_build %install %make_install %find_lang %{name} rm -f %{buildroot}/%{_infodir}/dir %post /sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/%{name}.info % {_infodir}/dir || : %preun if [ $1 = 0 ] ; then /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/%{name}.info % {_infodir}/dir || : fi %files -f %{name}.lang %{_mandir}/man1/hello.1.* %{_infodir}/hello.info.* %{_bindir}/hello %doc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO %license COPYING %changelog * Tue Sep 06 2011 The Coon of Ty <Ty@coon.org> 2.10-1 - Initial version of the package to add Text
7. Independent build and distribution service for Flatpaks
8. { "app-id": "org.gnu.hello", "runtime": "org.freedesktop.Platform", "runtime-version": “20.08", "sdk": "org.freedesktop.Sdk", "command": "hello", "modules": [ { "name": "gnu-hello", "sources": [ { "type": "archive", "url": "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz", "sha256": "31e066137a962676e89f69d1b65382de95a7ef7(...)" } ] } ] }
9. Build once, run everywhere
10. applications run against portable runtime
11. Flatpak itself is not tied to single store
12. Flathub is a community project
13. 2017 – 162 apps 2018 – 454 apps (+292) 2019 – 703 apps (+249) 2020 – 961 apps (+258) actually more!
14. https://flathub.org/stats
19. backend
24. Improve developer experience
25. 1) Fork https://github.com/flathub/flathub 2) Clone the fork: git clone –branch=new-pr git@github.com:username/flathub 3) Add the manifest to the branch, commit and push 4) Open a pull request against the new-pr branch 5) Wait for the review
26. missing icon files missing metainfo file mysterious aarch64 build failures no network access unneeded files left in the app using outdated runtime
27. More automation
28. CVE checker Glue new upstream releases Notify about new runtime release
29. We need help! Convince upstream app developers to maintain their apps Submit new apps Documentation, bug triage Web development
30. Already a maintainer? We need feedback too! b@bpiotrowski.pl @barthalion https://github.com/flathub https://discourse.flathub.org #flatpak on Freenode