Hello everyone;
I am a teacher and I have developed four applications (open sources) that are very useful for students (mathematics, fluid mechanics, hydraulics,…). I have put them in many stores:
When I discovered Flathub, I thought it was a great opportunity to more share these apps with Linux users.
However, after spending a lot of time following the submission process, my apps are now blocked. Why?
I thing that I have do what asked me!
Can any one help me
I can correct any errors if necessary, just let me know.
First of all, thank you for your response.
Here is my story about submitting my applications, which are not AI-based. I coded most part of them myself throughout my teaching career for the subjects I teach.
I am not a computer scientist, but I have learned some basics of programming in C++ and Qt, which allow me to code simple applications for students simulating simple physical phenomena in my field of expertise.
These applications help students to understand my lessons in an interactive way.
All my applications are open source on GitHub and available to the public.
I submitted my applications to the Play Store and MS Store without any problems.
But for Flathub, after following the steps and instructions requested and after some time, one of the reviewers blocked my PR submission, arguing that it was copy-pasted.
If that’s true, why are they accepted in other stores?
Let them tell me where the copy-paste is. Let them tell me where I copied it from.
Let them show me an app in FlatHub that is identical to mine.
These are scientific apps, and they find their audience on FlatHub and on Linux.
Still, I’m close to correcting everything the reviewer asks me to. Maybe there are things I missed.
In the end, thank you again. And rest assured that my goal is to help students and even scientists in my field by putting my applications in as many stores as possible.
But blocking me like this is discouraging, and certainly doesn’t benefit Linux customers or FlatHub.
Looking at the apps in the other store, they look like they are windows forms apps. We unually don’t accept apps, that run via wine. And I’m not aware of a toolkit, that can translate winform apps.
That’s precisely the goal of submitting my application to FlatHub.
So that it works natively without Wine.
Two app are in Qt Widgets, in my last app I used Qt Quick Controls (Material, Universal, Fusion). Looks more like a modern mobile/desktop hybrid UI, not WinForms.
The label “blocked” usually means the submission is blocked from being merged with flathub. Not that the app is not allowed. In that case they’d probably just closed the PR.
Flathub has a schedule on how often they merge and publish apps. Blocked just is for the Team to know “Here is still something in the works do not merge!” not that this app is not allowed over on flathub.
As soon as all the modifications requested or anything left to do is approved they will get different labels.
I assume your requests are blocked because there was a lot of activity and multiple fixes made by you. Therefore I guess they just received the label to not accidentally get merged and possibly being broken.