I believe Flatpak is the easiest way to get packages not available in official or common third party repositories, and I love that. But I also don’t know who uploaded and created the package, unless it has that blue verified checkmark. I don’t know who is maintaining it or if anything untoward has happened
In short we need a reputation system or at least for the individuals uploading and upkeeping these packages to be known entities on the page. I should be able to see “Maintained and uploaded by X/Y/Z” and for their github or whatever they use to be linked to it.
For instance, there is Path of Building Community. This Flatpak doesn’t tell me who it is maintained by, only that it’s unverified. I don’t know what kind of checks and verifications go on in the background, I know a lot of people use Flathub, but at the very least, the uploader and maintainers should have some kind of presence on the page, especially for Flatpaks which are NOT maintained and uploaded by their originator. those I have a lot less problems with.
It’s just better for everyone involved, especially the end users.
I didn’t see it before I posted, no. but if it’s this common of a request and a concern, it should be a priority to add, no? i mean I assume the people who maintain the different packages here are known to the site, would take very little to just push that information to the public listing for the listing would it not?
