Offer a way for projects to verify themselves on Flathub

[Michael Terry]

Flathub has introduced the ability for apps to verify themselves as first-party apps (i.e. the app author maintains it, not some rando). The way it is implemented will require some cooperation from Launchpad for any apps that use `net.launchpad.xxx` application ids.

Verification is in beta right now and does not seem to have an obvious documentation I can point you at. But here’s a ticket for ongoing work: https://github.com/flathub/website/issues/44

The developer flow is that you log in, say you want to verify your app, then they give you a uuid token to add to https://launchpad.net/.well-known/org.flathub.VerifiedApps.txt to prove that you have some control over your app’s namespace.

Obviously, a random project owner can’t do that today, and the ability to do so would have to be designed and built into Launchpad.

I imagine this is not high on the Launchpad team’s priority list, but I wanted to raise the issue.

[Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00)]

How are you involved in this project?

I also wonder whether there are many Flatpak projects hosted on Lauchpad.

As far as I understand you need to create a repository for your configuration under github.com/flathub which then points to the source code repository.

If my assumption is correct, there is exactly one upstream project hosted on Launchpad:
https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories?q=net.launchpad&type=all&language=&sort=

Do I miss something?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Lol, I didn’t realize there was only one. That’s my app indeed. I was looking at how to verify it and that’s when I filed this.

Welp. That doesn’t bode well for prioritization. 🙂

[Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00)]

:)