My question has been lingering for a while. ( https://together.jolla.com/question/13605/visible-open-source-app-community-supported-by-jolla/ )
But during FOSDEM we had a Sailfish/Jolla Community Round-Table ( https://together.jolla.com/question/11303/are-you-going-to-fosdem-2014-irl-floss-meeting-in-belgium/?answer=13864#post-id-13864 ). This topic was brought up and seems Sailors are committed to address this with pushing forward towards a clean open source app repository with community QA and easy on-device access after enabling developer mode. This would provide something like Maemo Extras and would be community QA'd to ensure the apps don't pose major problems when installed. On the other hand it would provide an easy middle ground for apps that don't fit into harbour for various reasons (API calls, dependencies, etc.). It will be backed by an OBS project on Mer community OBS, which has Sailfish targets. OBS has come a very long way since we've seen it first. I've personally had several apps build out of the box by just _clicking_: * create package * source provision through tar_git If the app builds on a clean SDK, then it's highly likely to build out of the box also on OBS. You may now say "what about openrepos?". They have chosen to be a site for one-click RPM hosting repositories with no QA. Despite their best efforts this approach has led to significant problems. Also it does binary only uploads and thus non-free/closed applications and no traceable chain from source to binary. That said, if the openrepos client (warehouse) passes community QA it will for sure be included in the community repository. Thus allowing users to install it easily, if they so wish. We're not hostile towards it, it just doesn't offer the level of trust to be a viable avenue for a default community repository. This is a PERSONAL summary of MY recollection of the FOSDEM discussion on this topic. I hope that Jolla will now finally back this up and we will see Sailors working towards this. For those who already want to get started, there is a SailfishOS target on OBS and a community repository called "Chum" where applications will be visible in the future. https://build.merproject.org/project/subprojects?project=sailfishos Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
