AppImage is a new packaging method for Linux that can package an application into a compressed image file that contains the application and all the files needed to run it. It's free to install, works across multiple Linux distributions, and users simply download the AppImage - double-click to run the application. OBS Studio is a well-known open source video recording and real-time streaming software, which is widely used in the field of video capture and live broadcast.
As early as 2020, AppImage author probonopd and developer azubieta have always wanted to introduce AppImage into the OBS project :
After the introduction of the base build, the OBS project administrators assigned some testers to the project, but the embarrassing thing is: both on Arch Linux and Ubuntu, the tests on the OBS AppImage crashed, and the binary build of the AppImage seems to be the same as the OBS project The deployed Linux PPA CI has some conflicts.
The debugging of AppImage by the OBS team continued until July 2021. After many cycles of adjustment-test-crash, OBS project manager Joel Bethke finally decided to abandon the build of AppImage and closed the corresponding PR.
AppImage's supportability for OBS is questionable and generally lacks demand. The OBS project team is currently incapable of taking responsibility for another package ecosystem.
But probonopd still insists that azubieta has completed the OBS AppImage build and should continue to debug. But this time Bethke was not merciless, and opened up directly:
This PR was originally conceived, developed and submitted by the AppImage developers, not by our OBS community. Thanks again for your efforts, but we're not currently interested in your AppImage tool .
The above incident will come to an end in October 2021. Logically speaking, it is not a big deal if your own tools are rejected by the OBS community. After all, there are various Linux packaging methods, and everyone can get what they need. However, probonopd replied again under this PR a few days ago , this time the remarks can be described as the ultimate "yin and yang":
Who decided the community not to adopt my AppImage? Is there any evidence?
You said that AppImage was not conceived and developed by the OBS community, then let me see who introduced your Flatpak package. I guess it was Red Hat or the Gnome community. After all, you also introduced Red Hat's Flatpak, Wayland, and Pipewire technologies.
This should have nothing to do with the fact that Red Hat donated ten thousand dollars to you, um, um, it definitely doesn't matter.
These yin and yang remarks imply that the OBS community is open to money and provides strong support for the technology of the donating company, but ignores its own AppImage. This remark completely angered the developers of the OBS community, and the manager Bethke directly blocked probonopd in the OBS project:
Probonopd and his closely related AppImage developers are banned from the OBS project, and as long as he's in charge of the project, we won't be working directly with him or anyone on his team. Because all he brings is harassment, and there is no valuable advice or help for the technical problems we encountered.
However, no one will be ostracized by the OBS project and community for mentioning AppImage or requesting an AppImage build. It is also not ruled out that the OBS community will support the AppImage package at some point in the future, as long as there are enough user needs and developers who are willing to work hard for it.
People, not technology, are banned here.