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[Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,
Am Samstag, den 16.05.2020, 15:50 +0200 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
> I am not aware of who the maintainer of the flatpak is, nor do I think
> he may follow this list closely.

>From what I can say, so far the flatpak has been maintained by whoever
sent in a PR, and it was updated whenever one of the main flathub
maintainers found time to review the PR.
Johannes
> But it would certanly be good to get the package updated to be on part
> with other packages.
> 
> Nick
> 
> lør. 16. maj 2020 12.27 skrev Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello KiCad team,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > during the past months, I have been updating the KiCad flatpak on
> > 
> > flathub.org from time to time, via PRs to 
> > 
> > https://github.com/flathub/org.kicad_pcb.KiCad (I am preparing the
> > 
> > update to KiCad 5.1.6 right now as well).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > There are a few pending issues with the current flatpak build
> > manifest
> > 
> > for KiCad which I'd like to address: Activating Python scripting
> > 
> > support, adding the docs, and generally updating various
> > dependencies
> > 
> > would be my next steps.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I was recently being asked by another user if I would like to
> > request
> > 
> > the maintainership of the KiCad manifest on flathub, and I am now
> > 
> > contemplating to do so. But, since I did only contribute a few tiny-
> > tiny 
> > 
> > things to KiCad in the past, I wanted to ask the core
> > 
> > packagers/developers first, if anyone else would take over the
> > 
> > maintainership instead?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Johannes
> > 
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