Hi all,
I wanted to give a quick update. The Flathub team and the GNOME Foundation would like to give our thanks to those who expressed interest and applied. Neil McGovern, Nick Richards, Bartłomiej Piotrowski and I received and reviewed four proposals for this project.
We’re pleased to announce that we have awarded the contract to two different applicants who have started work this week. Codethink are the main contractor, and they provided a complete proposal and will have a number of engineers working on the project over the coming weeks. They will be supplemented by James Westman who made a proposal focused on the verification and web parts of the project, and will work closely with the Codethink team to deliver certain work packages.
We were impressed by parts of both proposals and asked whether they would be happy to work together, allowing us to involve more of the community in the project, and share the knowledge about the work being done more widely.
For those eager to follow the progress of the project, we’ve set up a GitHub project board to track the work items (which belong to different underlying Flathub modules) and are using the same Matrix chat room to discuss the project, daily standups, etc.
Many Thanks,
Rob