Notes from Day 2 of the Hackfest

* Emeus demo

• discussion of ways to integrate constraints-based layout with traditional gtk size allocation
• reimplement boxes grids, etc using constraints
• allow emeus containers to be composable by merging the constraints sets
• good test: turn widget factory into a single emeus layout

* Wayland/GFX discussion with Daniel Stone

• general introduction to pipelines
• it turns out that switching precompiled pipelines in vulkan is basically free, it is expensive in GL
• we need to minimize the amount of pixels we feed through the pipeline to conserve memory bandwidth

* Portal discussion

• Short-term, we will use the current Endless approach of using default app settings to bypass the app chooser dialog
• We will improve the app chooser dialog for the other cases where we can't avoid it
• Longer-term solution for having applications represented as first-class in the control-center will need careful thought and is probably more a 3.26 goal

* Flathub discussion

• Flathub can be a gnome-hosted thing, to have a legal entity
• Open question: can we host things like skype and spotify here?
• Roadmap, v1
  • have a git repo on github containing recipes/links
  • review + ci pipeline to build them
  • x86 + arm v7/v8 builders
  • team responsible for main/supp
  • pr workflow to make/review changes
  • server with repository to distribute binaries, could be s3 or self-hosted
  • single gpg key
  • static website that hosts contacts/home page/repo reference
  • free software + "extra data" assets
  • host screenshots as well
  • hosted by gnome foundation as incubator
  • source code compliance
• timeline for v1: have it ready for Guadec
• action items:
  • neil: board / server / legal
  • cosimo / neil: hackfest ??
  • matthias: RH / fedora legal

  • DONE alex: github repo / team

  • aday: irc/private mailing list
    • collect list of reviewers (website) 2-weekly hangout
  • rob: plan / writeup
• lots of naming discussion