Verified account request for fenenko

store-requests
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Hello, I would like to request Verified Account status for our publisher account: fenenko We are the official developers of opolyglot. Here is the link to our snap:https://snapcraft.io/opolyglot. To prove our identity, you can check our official website/repository where we link to this snap:

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This request has not been added to the review queue. It should be placed in the appropriate store-requests subcategory using the subcategory template for classic-confinement, privileged-interfaces and aliases requests.

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Hi @fenenko, thanks for raising this with us. Following the procedure stated in verified accounts, could you please provide the following information?

  • A list of the snaps that you have, that should have a verified publisher associated with them.
  • The institution, foundation or company that you are a member of or work for.
  • Your role within that institution, foundation or company.
  • The group email address that should be tied to the Verified Account.
  • The way in which your institution has worked, collaborated or partnered with us. If your institution, foundation or company hasn’t so far, let’s start a conversation.

Once we have the information, our review team can then take a look and give feedback. I hope that helps. Thank you!

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  1. opolyglot
  2. I am an independent open-source developer. This project is not affiliated with any institution, company, or foundation.
  3. Creator and lead developer of the OPolyglot project.
  4. fenenko@gmail.com
  5. As an independent developer, I haven’t officially partnered with Canonical yet, but I am glad to distribute my privacy-focused offline translation tool via the Snap Store and would love to maintain it here as a verified publisher.

Thank you!

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Thanks for providing the information. According to the verified accounts thread, it is catered towards institutions, foundations or companies. Given that you’re an independent developer, perhaps the star developer is more appropriate for your circumstances.

You may provide the following information and we can get @policy-reviewers to review your case.

  • Which ways you are active in the snap community (or perhaps in the Ubuntu or another open source community)
  • The number of snaps you have published and/or maintained
  • Any other ways that you have used snaps

Thank you!

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1. Which ways you are active in the snap community (or perhaps in the Ubuntu or another open source community)

I am an active developer and maintainer in the open-source ecosystem, focusing on creating and distributing privacy-centric, desktop applications. My primary contributions include:

  • Application Development: Developing OPolyglot, an open-source, offline local machine translation application built with C++ and wxWidgets. The project specifically aims to provide users with a secure translation tool that runs entirely locally without cloud tracking.

  • Packaging & Distribution: Actively working on bringing OPolyglot to mainstream Linux distribution channels, which involves writing, testing, and debugging build configurations for Snapcraft, as well as other formats like Flatpak and AppImage.

  • Community Engagement: Participating in developer forums (such as the Ubuntu/Snapcraft and Fedora ecosystems) to troubleshoot dependency issues, cross-platform compatibility, and sandbox permissions.

2. The number of snaps you have published and/or maintained

  • Published/Maintained: I am currently maintaining and working on the deployment pipeline for 1 snap package (OPolyglot).

  • Experience: My work involves configuring the snapcraft.yaml manifest, managing desktop environment plugs (like X11/Wayland integration), handling strict confinement challenges, and ensuring seamless updates across different Ubuntu base systems (such as Ubuntu 24.04).

3. Any other ways that you have used snaps

Beyond publishing, I rely heavily on the Snap ecosystem in my daily workflow as a software engineer and power user:

  • Development Environment: I use snaps to install and maintain up-to-date development tools, IDEs, and CLI utilities on my local machines (running Ubuntu and Fedora).

  • Testing & Validation: I frequently use standard snap commands to test confinement, inspect runtime environments, and verify how libraries behave when isolated from the host system. This hands-on experience as a consumer helps me write better, more robust configurations as a creator.

Thank you!

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@policy-reviewers would you be able to review the request above, please? Thanks!