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Separate official from community AppImages
Fixes #3052
I've tested this with a few well-known official AppImages and it seems to work pretty well.
@probonopd that's what I meant here. The only other option I can think of would be to create something along the lines of /data/unknown for existing submissions.
Well, main question is going to be: Who will be doing the sorting of all the existing AppImages?
@probonopd I'd have no issue sorting a lot of them, but it wouldn't be an instant one-off effort, probably something over the course of months.
I also imagine many devs would want to update their own applications to reflect being official builds as well, so they'd likely send in PRs.
For the sake of existing AppImages, I've also come to the realization that adding a separate (temporary) identification for them, indicating that they're in the process of being curated might be best.
The unverified directory should not be accepting new AppImages, and the end goal of it would be to manually sort everything into their proper identification and then eventually be removed.
It's a large undertaking and one I don't have the time for at the moment. Would you possibly be interested in becoming the maintainer for appimage.github.io?
Maintaining this repository properly needs more time than I currently have, I'd estimate a few hours each week. So depending on how committed to working on this over a longer period of time, I'd be happy to hand over maintainership. How serious are you about your time commitment?
Sad to see that this went nowhere. AppImages backed by community would have avoided the sorry state it is currently in. Hundreds of Issues & PRs left ignored for years.
And every few years someone new comes along and tries to revitalize the format & ecosystem, but it goes nowhere Most people have discovered the format, tried it & contributed only to lose interest and then never be seen here again. Most package managers have come and are now completely abandoned.
There seems to be only AM that's actively maintained. There would have been no need, if this PR had gone through and people like @ivan-hc , @Drsheppard01 would have been the obvious choice to hand over the maintainership.
But alas, it is what it is.
@Azathothas Yeah... this hit hard. It's difficult to maintain motivation after spending dozens to hundreds of hours making PRs, new AppImage-related projects, trying to expand the format to allow for proper sandboxing, etc. just to have everything go stale after answering a couple questions. I give big props to those still working hard at it, working with AppImage maintainers is a VERY uphill battle.