If somebody wants to start work on packaging for distros, Arch included, that would be fine by me.

But I don't think it's stable/complete enough to be actually submitted for a main distro package repo just yet. Needs a few more months of work on stability and documentation at least.

I don't think if AUR requires any stability you can just provide a git repo and users compile themselves. You introduced me to this repo on twitter, I'm just getting started, and as I use Arch I could work on Arch compatibility first.
I will start working on this issue then.

Yeah by all means work on packaging, since that has to be done eventually.

I just feel like the act of submitting a package to a distro implies some semblance of "usable for general audiences other than people who are active developers of the tool". As a minimum I need to fix some file format issues and make sure there's no known crashes.

FYI, someone appears to have packaged this to AUR already: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scopehal-apps-git . The -git suffix indicates it will build from the latest VCS snapshot, and that it shouldn't be taken to be stable.