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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johannes,

Thank you for offering to take on maintenance of the flathub package.
We are happy to have your help with this, and as far as I know none of
the other lead developers was planning on taking it on.

Please feel free to reach out here if you run into any challenges with
fixing the packaging issues.  I'm not sure how much experience any
of us have with flatpak, but we can do our best to help figure them out.

Best,
Jon

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 4:33 PM Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wow, that was quick. I got added as a collaborator.
>
> And I have just merged the update to v5.1.6 on flathub. This should hit
> flatpak users as soon as some build machine does the job. It will still
> lack all of the open issues, like no Python scripting support, no docs,
> among a few other things), but I will start tackling them during the
> next few days.
>
> Let me just repeat in case I wasn't getting through my point before: If
> anyone from the core team wants to maintain
> https://github.com/flathub/org.kicad_pcb.KiCad please let me know.
>
> Apart from that I will try doing my best as flatpak packager from now
> on.
>
> Johannes
>
> Am Montag, den 18.05.2020, 22:16 +0200 schrieb Johannes Maibaum:
> > Am Montag, den 18.05.2020, 19:35 +0200 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
> > > Yeah, hence there are probably no one here that can give you
> > > maintainer ship, unfortunately. :/
> >
> > My original intent for asking here was not asking someone on this list
> > to give me maintainer rights, but rather if somebody from the core
> > packagers/devs would be wanting to take over the flathub
> > maintainership
> > themselves.
> >
> > Anyhow, I have just asked over on flathub [1] if they would be giving
> > me
> > maintainership rights. Let's see what comes out of this.
> >
> > Johannes
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/1527
> >
> > > 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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