@shiftkey @joshaber now that this has been merged, is there anything preventing this project from providing pre-compiled RPM, DEB and AppImage builds of Desktop on GitHub Releases?

@probonopd we don't use GitHub Releases for shipping updates, so we'd have to teach our infrastructure how to manage these. But that's a long-term thing.

I have some ideas about moving this forward, but I need to chat with @desktop/core first.

@shiftkey If you guys are intending to ship native packages (.rpms and .debs) as opposed to something typically distributed as a direct download like Flatpak or AppImage, I'd strongly recommend using OBS for building and shipping:
https://build.opensuse.org/

Supports building and distributing for all major desktop distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE), a lot of Linux users are already familiar with installing software from there. It can function as a repository for each distro's package manager, so you don't have to worry about manually distributing new updates for each distro's registry, just register github-desktop (or whatever package name you're going with) in each distro's official registry as pointing to that distro's build on OBS.