Me recalls how Nokia's dev wiki was suddenly pushed ahead a great deal when Nokia started heaving competitions and giving prizes for things like best article of a month. You know, as a part of a developer program :)
It will be good to have a wiki, eventually many good github examples could have a central navigation place. Artem. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Nicolas Cisco <nci...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my opinion, the main problem in developing for SailfishOS is the lack > of documentation, it would be good to have a official site with tutorials, > faqs, etc. But, as it was said mantaining all that documentation is > something that requires many people, ie: resources and money. > > I think that when we all support Jolla by buying the device we all knew > that developing for it would be something like hacking. Sometimes, it's a > bit frustrating to spend much time finding out how the platform works, > instead of developing the app we are tring to. But, we, as a community, > manage to surpass that problem and build good apps. I personally didn't > know the existance of the Sailfish section in the mer wiki [1], so i > started to write a blog [2] about the solutions i found to the problems i > encountered while developing for SailfishOS, i'll try to start transcribing > that entries to the wiki. If we all make an effort of writing an article in > the wiki for every (or at least some) of the solutions we find for the > problems we come across while developing we would a good base non-official > documentation and tutorials. Remember that the main purpose of a wiki is > the collaborative knowledge, if each puts it's little help, we'll make > somthing big =). > > Let's be honest, there is a unofficial jolla/sailfish facebook group > (which is well maintained), there are also unofficial jolla/sailfish blogs > (with frequent entries) and there is also an unofficial jolla/sailfish > forum, why can't we also have a good unofficial jolla/sailfish > wiki/documentation? =D > > [1] https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Sailfish > [2] http://nckweb.com.ar/sailing-code > > 2015-02-06 9:48 GMT-03:00 "Thomas B. Rücker" <tho...@ruecker.fi>: > > On 02/06/2015 12:13 PM, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote: >> > On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 10:32 +0000, "Thomas B. Rücker" wrote: >> >> You mean like https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Sailfish and its >> >> various >> >> sub-pages? >> > I'm looking more for things like (just examples): >> > - How to use the camera in a Sailfish app >> > - How do I create this-and-that kind of UI interface >> > - How do I use a Wii/PS3 controller in my Sailfish game >> > - How can I send e-mail from my application using the e-mail app >> > - How do I implement a social sharing feature into my application >> > - Storing settings in my app >> > - Getting GPS information in a harbour approved way >> > - etc... >> >> That's what it's for and some of what you say is there, but if nobody >> puts anything new there it won't be there. Or were you looking for >> groomed developer documentation that happens to be on a wiki, "like >> Nokia had" and Nokia employed an army of people larger than Jolla as a >> whole to maintain? >> >> But this is moot anyway, as it was just said that there maybe some day >> be a "official" wiki, so please go back to your holding pattern and wait >> patiently. >> >> TBR >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> > > > > -- > Nicolas Cisco > www.nckweb.com.ar > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > -- Artem Marchenko http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com http://twitter.com/AgileArtem
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