When I first started to use flatpaks, I raised my hand and vowed to only use verified flatpaks and practice good security, but I quickly found that was not workable.
I can understand why the flatpaks made by community volunteers aren’t verified, but it’s amazing how many flatpaks there are that are made and maintained by the upstream authors are not verified? Why is that? Is it really that much of a lift?
Just wondering why we don’t see more verified flatpaks in flathub by the upstream authors who made them.
“Support for the Flatpak version of Slack isn’t something that’s currently on our roadmap”
Product managers at companies are not going to just support yet another distribution method out of the kindness of their hearts, it needs resources allocated to it, and for resources to be allocated it needs a justifiable business reason.
I don’t think we understood the initial posting the same way. I thought OP was saying, that there are packages from authors, that don’t get verified for whatever reason.
I’m not talking about packages that are made by volunteers, I mean packages that are made into flatpaks by the upstream authors and uploaded to flathub by the authors, but then never get a verified badge? I’m just wondering why they don’t.
The main developer of Freetube, PrestonN isn’t very active. They only do releases on Flathub and not much issue triaging. I did some maintenance of the package last year.
You can ask them to verify the app, they have a matrix room.