kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome!  Welcome on board, Johannes.

> On 18 May 2020, at 21:42, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <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 <https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/1527>
> > 
> > > On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 16:10, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <mailto:jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello KiCad team,
> > > > 
> > > > during the past months, I have been updating the KiCad flatpak on
> > > > flathub.org <http://flathub.org/> from time to time, via PRs to
> > > > https://github.com/flathub/org.kicad_pcb.KiCad <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
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> > > > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> > > > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp