Michael Telatynski

@mcatanzaro funnily enough, author of revolt submitted a PR to package this electron based app into flatpak (#3723)

not blocking but means it's not as simple as changing a config line, and instead the whole packing process has to be done/used

> where currently Element officially only supports deb-based distros. This isn't true, we support all glibc-x86_64 Linux machines via the tarball - https://packages.element.io/desktop/install/linux/index.html - we don't have people on the...

The marketing page you're referring to is just behind, but we've informed all known packagers about it multiple times

@foresto the commit you linked is from an Element employee. We broadcast the availability of the tarballs in the Element Package Maintainers room weeks ago, the flatpak maintainer is there.

https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/pull/597 is the PR which added it > And, there's an Element package maintainers room? That might have been helpful to know as well. Its an invite only coordination room...

@PerAstraAdDeum no one on the team is familiar enough with Flatpaks nor do we have enough spare time to maintain any additional platforms especially ones which no customer has asked...

Right but we have people with debian maintainership experience in the company, the same is not true for Flatpak. > Right now, someone who is using a non-Debian-based distro has...

 Quite a bit over a year.

Sure but they are less restrictive and buggy than Flatpak or Snap. Which means less support load and more *it just works*. Community packages fill in the gaps elsewhere.