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Re: Requesting maintainership for KiCad manifest on flathub.org

 

Yeah, hence there are probably no one here that can give you
maintainer ship, unfortunately. :/

On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 16:10, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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