As a long time Linux user, I’m extremely happy with Flatpak and what it means for the Linux ecosystem. Though like many other users, I sometimes struggle to decide whether to install a Flatpak or use the distro package, for the sole reason that a distro package might have been around longer than any non-official Flatpak application, and might be more stable.
Since Flathub is growing every day and getting more official adoption (such as Firefox), this decision would be much easier to make if Flatpaks officially supported by the upstream developer got some kind of verification badge, or a checkmark, or a label somewhere on the store page. You know, like Youtube does, or Twitter, or Snap.
Might seem a minor change, but it’ll help adoption for end users that still do not understand why install a Flatpak version of some app, it gives a lot of legitimacy to both Flathub (hey, this is official, I can trust this!) and to the ecosystem as a whole (hey, Mozilla has an official Flatpak, it’s not just a tech demo!).
Currently AFAIK the only way of making sure a Flatpak is officially mantained is going to the contributors list on the github repo, and checking every single committer if they’re affiliated in any way with the application.
In any case, whether this feature goes through or not, let me give a word of appreciation to all the volunteers that package apps that are not yet supporting Flatpak. Thank you!
(Sorry if this has been discussed already, I could not find the appropriate place to post this.)