Distributions quote of the week

I'm not going to get into the value proposition of Fedora Flatpaks here. There is value there, but as long as we are constructing it in a way that is in direct conflict with upstream outputs it will be be difficult to articulate. Because right now what is blazingly obvious is that the conflict with upstream is damaging to project health, and its not clear to me that the conflict is necessary. So the opt-in filter is a compromise that we can implement right now, while we figure out the full technical solution and restructure our flatpak offerings so that they are not in direct conflict with upstream efforts.

We've put ourselves in a bind here because its clear we didn't really think through how a federated flatpak environment should work to minimize conflict, before we spun up our own collection of alternative application builds. We missed something vital about what the flatpak federated landscape should be and we need to address it with some structural changes.