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"The rules are fairly lax what goes into Flathub" - statement dreamed up by deranged
Meanwhile, there are 128 submissions with "awaiting changes" status, the oldest dating April 2022, and 40 submissions that are marked as blocked. The linter has 160 different errors preventing people from doing bad or just wrong things. There's a full-fledged moderation system requiring manual review of any permission change.
Fedora project leader shitting on developers trying to distribute their apps to Linux users at large sure leaves a good impression.
@barthalion and how the review process compares the process with Debian or Fedora review process? That's what he says: distributions has usually much more careful review process setup, while flatpak "assumes" sandboxing, thou the deep review shouldn't be needed.
@okias @barthalion I maintain applications both in Flathub and Fedora repositories and I actually find it more demanding to keep the apps in Flathub than in the Fedora repos. Actually ever since I got the Fedora packages through the review process to the repos, no one has cared what I'm doing with them.
Meanwhile in Flathub I have already received several requests to remove problematic things in the manifest, update it to the latest guidelines etc. And I was hard stopped by the build system. So unless I made the changes or filed a ticket and explained why I needed it, I could not maintain the app any more.
@sesivany @barthalion My experience is with the Debian. I assumed Fedora has similar quality checks in place. Thanks for clarification.
@okias @barthalion No experience with Debian. Does it have any strict automatic checks that hard enforce rules on all packages or is it still the traditional way: the review at the beginning is hard, but then we basically rely on the maintainer to behave well or someone else catching misbehaving and reporting it?
Fedora already has some automatic checks, too, but I'm not sure how advanced and enforcing they are. Anyway, I've never been stopped by them unlike in Flathub.