You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. I never said its not your job to distribute your software to your users in general, I said it is not your job

You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. I never said its not your job to distribute your software to your users in general, I said it is not your job to distribute via distro specific packages and repos. Even if you wanted to do this you can't since you don't have the necessary permissions to contribute code to most or even any of the repos in question. I am not against providing a static binary or image (or whatever) by the way, this is probably the best thing that you can do! I was just trying to clear up the misunderstanding about distro specific packages and who creates and maintains them since most people don't have much experience with the process. It's also worth nothing that this isn't really a one way or the other deal, you can provide a portable method and people can package your software eventually. I think the two styles work very well with each other.