Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen John Smoogen writes: > I believe those need to be tied into a couple of other questions > 1. How does any organization work with these various prominent vendors? I doubt that this is a very useful question as stated. Even near-peers like Red Hat itself and Ubuntu are probably corporate

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Mat Booth
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 17:41, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > What I'm asking is whether Fedora, as an organization, is interested > > in working with prominent vendors to determine whether there are > > barriers to publishing software f

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 13:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 11/4/21 17:23, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > I don't know if that's of interest to Fedora, as an organization, but > > on the off-chance that it is: Is anyone in a position to ask someone > > at Slack about that decision? And whether there's a

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > What I'm asking is whether Fedora, as an organization, is interested > in working with prominent vendors to determine whether there are > barriers to publishing software for Fedora, or whether they perceive > insufficient value in do

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/4/21 17:23, Gordon Messmer wrote: I don't know if that's of interest to Fedora, as an organization, but on the off-chance that it is: Is anyone in a position to ask someone at Slack about that decision?  And whether there's anything that Fedora can do to make publishing that package more

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 05/11/2021 07:04, Joe Doss wrote: Thanks for the suggestion but I prefer the official client for work. You can also use the official Web version in any modern web browser (Firefox or Chromium). -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-05 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 05/11/2021 01:23, Gordon Messmer wrote: I don't know if that's of interest to Fedora, as an organization, but on the off-chance that it is: Is anyone in a position to ask someone at Slack about that decision?  And whether there's anything that Fedora can do to make publishing that package mo

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Joe Doss
On 11/5/21 12:41 AM, Benson Muite wrote: The Mattermost client is open source and will connect to Slack. There are a number of packages in copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fulltext/?fulltext=mattermost Thanks for the suggestion but I prefer the official client for work. Joe --

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Benson Muite
The Mattermost client is open source and will connect to Slack. There are a number of packages in copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fulltext/?fulltext=mattermost ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Joe Doss
On 11/4/21 8:55 PM, Joe Doss wrote: It would be cool if we could rally some sort of support on our end to help Slack produce a functioning RPM. I hit up some buds that used to work at Slack to see if they can help connect us with some folks there to work this out. Joe -- Joe Doss j...@sol

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Joe Doss
On 11/4/21 7:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: I don't know if that's of interest to Fedora, as an organization, but on the off-chance that it is: Is anyone in a position to ask someone at Slack about that decision?  And whether there's anything that Fedora can do to make publishing that package mor

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Sérgio Basto
as root dnf install dpkg dpkg --force-depends -i slack-desktop-4.21.1-amd64.deb desktop-file-install ./usr/share/applications/slack.desktop works for me , is a "standalone" package we can check with : dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile slack-desktop-4.21.1-amd64.deb | tar tf - On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 2

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread JT
As someone who has to use Slack for work, this is disappointing, but at least there is still a flatpak for Slack: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.slack.Slack On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:24 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > > https://slack.com/help/articles/115002037526-System-requirements-for-usi

Re: Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Gwyn Ciesla via devel
I believe the flatpak on flathub is built on Ubuntu, so there's that, but yes, this is odd and potentially unfortunate. \-- Gwyn Ciesla she/her/hers \ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love \-d. bowie Sent f

Possibly off topic: Slack will discontinue packaging for Fedora

2021-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
https://slack.com/help/articles/115002037526-System-requirements-for-using-Slack "Note: Starting March 1, 2022, Slack will no longer support Fedora Linux distributions." I don't know if that's of interest to Fedora, as an organization, but on the off-chance that it is: Is anyone in a position