Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
Urgh, unfinished trains of thought. - Original Message - > > * Benefit to Fedora contributors: they can make their packaging work > > available across distributions and distribution versions. > > Most likely duplicating upstream work on getting that same ...on getting that same

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - > Hi Bastien, > > Here are some of the benefits I see of this effort as compared to simply > telling users to consume Flatpaks from Flathub or independent repositories: Sorry it took a couple of days to get back to you. If the end-goal is shipping Flatpaks, and

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Owen Taylor
Hi Bastien, Here are some of the benefits I see of this effort as compared to simply telling users to consume Flatpaks from Flathub or independent repositories: * Benefit to Flaptak users on all distributions: more applications are available more quickly. Some applications will be much easier to

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hey Owen, - Original Message - > I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of > graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final > pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but it's > definitely close enough to get

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Martin Kolman wrote: > On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 05:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > [...] > That's *very* nice & something I have been calling for basically from day > one with flatpacks. > > Not everyone wants to become a release engineer & build all the >

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 7.9.2018 v 03:45 Owen Taylor napsal(a): > > [...] > > If you maintain a graphical application, please try creating a Flatpak of > it. Your experience will vary - some applications are quite easy, but if > your application, for example: > >

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Michal Konečný wrote: > I thought there will be some automatic building script for flatpaks, so > the maintainers doesn't need to do it by themselves. > Is this automatization now dropped? > One level of automation is 'fedmod rpm2flatpak' which automatically

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Robin Lee
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:15 PM Owen Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Robin Lee wrote: >> >> What does it mean for 'Fedora' Flatpaks? >> - Flatpaks that run on a Fedora runtime? Then, what's the benifit to >> use Fedora runtime instead of freedesktop ones? >> - Flatpaks that

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Martin Kolman
On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 05:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Robin Lee wrote: > > What does it mean for 'Fedora' Flatpaks? > > > > - Flatpaks that run on a Fedora runtime? Then, what's the benifit to > > > > use Fedora runtime instead of freedesktop ones? > > > > -

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Robin Lee wrote: > What does it mean for 'Fedora' Flatpaks? > - Flatpaks that run on a Fedora runtime? Then, what's the benifit to > use Fedora runtime instead of freedesktop ones? > - Flatpaks that maintained by Fedora community? Then, why not > encourage people

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 7.9.2018 v 10:23 Martin Stransky napsal(a): > On 9/7/18 9:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> >> >> Dne 7.9.2018 v 03:45 Owen Taylor napsal(a): >>> I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of >>> graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the >>> final

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Martin Stransky
On 9/7/18 9:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 7.9.2018 v 03:45 Owen Taylor napsal(a): I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Friday, 07 September 2018 at 03:45, Owen Taylor wrote: > I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of > graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final > pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but it's > definitely close

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Michal Konečný
I thought there will be some automatic building script for flatpaks, so the maintainers doesn't need to do it by themselves. Is this automatization now dropped? mkonecny On 7.9.2018 03:45, Owen Taylor wrote: I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of graphical

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 7.9.2018 v 03:45 Owen Taylor napsal(a): > I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of > graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the > final pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but > it's definitely close enough to get

Re: Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-07 Thread Robin Lee
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:53 AM Owen Taylor wrote: > > I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of > graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final > pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but it's > definitely close

Call for participation: Fedora Flatpaks

2018-09-06 Thread Owen Taylor
I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but it's definitely close enough to get started. If you maintain a graphical application,