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QXmlEdit XML editor. Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxmledit/files
http://qxmledit.org
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Add QXmlEdit snap information to qxmledit.org/info.html #59

Closed frederickjh closed 3 years ago

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

@lbellonda I did not find a repository for the QXmlEdit website so I could submit a pull request for this, so I am opening an issue to have this added to the website.

I just released the QXmlEdit snap on the stable release channel. Quite some time has gone by without any negative feedback.

At this point it would be good if instructions on how to install the QXmlEdit snap could be added to the Info and Downloads page.

I have included a suggested text below.

Frederick

QXmlEdit can also be installed as a snap. Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross-platform and dependency-free. Snaps are used by millions of people across 41 Linux distributions.

To install the QXmlEdit snap: sudo snap install qxmledit More information about snaps can be found in the Snapcraft Getting Started Documentation.

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

This may be more concise than what I wrote for more information, but you can decide.

(Don't have snapd installed?)

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

Email from: help@snapcraft.io on 19.02.19, at 19:19

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frederickjh commented 5 years ago

Under the publicise page for QXmlEdit there are two "Get it from the Snap Store" logos with the html code that can be used to promote the QXmlEdit snap. One in black and one is white. I post it here in case you would like to use one of them.

Get it from the Snap Store 

<a href="https://snapcraft.io/qxmledit">
  <img alt="Get it from the Snap Store" src="https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg" />
</a>

HTML:

Get it from the Snap Store 

HTML:
<a href="https://snapcraft.io/qxmledit">
  <img alt="Get it from the Snap Store" src="https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-white.svg" />
</a>
lbellonda commented 5 years ago

Hello, I will insert the information on the site in some format, but as policy I do not directly endorse external built binaries unless I am accountable for them.

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

Thanks @lbellonda ! As you know you can take over the building of the snap any time you want. Once you accept the pull request, I have submitted, to add the snapcraft.yaml file this repository would be ready to do so. We just need to have the Snaps Store transfer ownership.

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

The number of people installing QXmlEdit via the snap is going up steadily since it has been released in the stable channel. The report from December 18. 2018 showed only 218 total installs and that was when the snap was only in the edge and beta channels, which means people had to search harder to find it.

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frederickjh commented 5 years ago

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lbellonda commented 5 years ago

Added a reference in the "news" page.

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

It would still be nice to see it listed in the downloads section, even if you put some kind of disclaimer on it.

frederickjh commented 5 years ago

@lbellonda the QXmlEdit snap has passed 1000 users recently in under a years time that it has been available even though it is not liste on QXmlEdits download page. image

And that in over 82 Teritories. The top ones with the most users (+30) are: Germany 130 United States 111 Russia 88 France 68 United Kingdom 57 Italy 56 Brazil 45 Poland 42 Netherlands 40 Spain 38 India 36 image

I also want to point out that on QXmlEdit News page you have listed the Snapcraft team as maintaining the QXmlEdit snap. I had some help from one of the Snapcraft team in the final stages before releasing on the stable channel but I am not on the Snapcraft team and when I asked them to take over maintaining the snap, they declined.

Lately the maintenance has mostly consisted of getting an email from Snap Store like this:

A scan of this snap shows that it was built with packages from the Ubuntu archive that have since received security updates. The following lists new USNs for affected binary packages in each snap revision:

<snip>

Simply rebuilding the snap will pull in the new security updates and resolve this. If your snap also contains vendored code, now might be a good time to review it for any needed updates.

Thank you for your snap and for attending to this matter. Logging into build.snapcraft.io, click the "Build Manually Now" button, waiting until all architectures have built then go to the releases page and promote the new versions from the edge channel to the beta, candidate and stable channels.

I know in the past both you and the Snapcraft team have declined to take over maintaining the QXmlEdit snap, however I think that it would be better if someone that really cares about the project would take over maintaining the snap. Currently it is low maintenance, however this could change with the release of a new version of QXmlEdit and I may at that point in time decide to not continue working on it.

I have posted an issue on the Github project for the snap saying that I am looking for a new maintainer. I wanted to let you know first in case you may have changed your mind about taking over maintaining the QXmlEdit snap.

I am once again at a point of major change in my life. I will be away from home for the months of October and November and during that period I cannot promise I will be able to devote much, if any time to maintaining the QXmlEdit snap.

frederickjh commented 4 years ago

Now getting close to 1500 snap users of QXmlEdit. In the last week the majority of users have upgraded from the stable version 0.9.13 to 0.9.15, as we did not have a stable release of 0.9.14 as a snap.

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frederickjh commented 3 years ago

We have now past 1700 users, with over 1500 on the newest version of QXmlEdit.

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frederickjh commented 3 years ago

I am closing this as will not fix. I find his all very sad. I worked on this originally for my own use at work. That work need no longer exists. Snapcrafters refused to take over maintainership as did @lbellonda.

You refuse to even recognize the packaging by mentioning it on the downloads page. Despite all this the snap is now approaching 1900 users.

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I am still looking for a maintainer to take over this project. I plan to move literally halfway around the world. In this new location my connection to the internet may not be the best and I will no longer have time to do the regular updates for security updates in packages included in this snap.

I plan to ask Snapcrafters again to take over the project next year before I move. If no one steps up I will be forced to I archive the Github repo and remove the QXmlEdit snap from the snap store. It would be a security risk to leave it as it is with no one to do the builds and releases when security updates to packages included in the QXmlEdit snap come out.

If someone see this and is interested to maintain the snap of QXmlEdit respond to this issue on the QXmlEdit snap project.