Flatpak's Development Stagnation: A Lack of Maintainers Hinders Innovation
2025-05-23
Despite its popularity among developers and users, and adoption by distributions like Fedora, the core Flatpak project is facing development stagnation. The main cause is the loss of key developers, leading to slow code review and merging, and a backlog of new features and improvements. The article explores challenges in Flatpak's OSTree and OCI support, permission refinement, network namespaces, and NVIDIA driver integration, proposing a potential OCI-based refactoring to leverage the broader container ecosystem and address existing issues.
(lwn.net)
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