[SailfishDevel] Nemo MW to Mer

[Filip Kłębczyk]

W dniu 05.04.2014 13:37, David Greaves pisze:
> So yes, Mer is *designed* to support internal builds and vendor-specific
> modifications.

That's great as long as Mer is not one vendor and one company oriented.

>
>> Sorry, but this sounds like, either it will be "our" (Jolla way) or we are
>> taking toys and are going to different closed sandbox to play.
>
> I find it hard to correlate that with "lets talk about being more open". Lets
> not pre-judge.

No one is pre-judging - my reaction was to Thomas Perl statement:
"alternative would be to have a private/downstream fork of Mer/Nemo
and not contribute to Mer/Nemo - would that be better?"

So it sounded like we have two choices, accepting status quo (Jolla 
maintainership/ownership/domination or however the current state can be 
called) or that Jolla will abandon supporting open mer/nemo (creating 
private fork).

>
> Improving this should be on the agenda. That too much discussion does happen
> internally is partly what drove the meeting proposal.

Totally agree and it was much earlier seen already (remember when I've 
asked about bug triages when they've suddenly stopped in the summer?).

>
> Oher vendors already participate and yet more will observe Jolla's experiences
> before commiting.
>

That's good, but I also recall there were more Mer based projects (e.g. 
Cordia) before than there are now. I would say it shows something.

> This meeting is not about that subject :)

Exactly, but Carsten in his mail proposed to include that topic 
(Nemo+Mer merge) on that meeting. I think introducing too much topics at 
once on the first meeting might not be the best idea. I see it more as a 
series of regular meetings, we have at least two big topics as a start.

1. Improving collaboration in open parts of Sailfish OS
2. Chum and supporting open source projects for Sailfish (kind of 
Sailfish-extra)
3. Mer and Nemo MW - merge or not?


> That subject should/will be discussed on mer-general too.

That's exactly what I've written, when Thomas Perl introduced new email 
subject - "Nemo MW to Mer" merge. The mail was interesting opinion, but 
that topic should be on mer-general.

Regards,
Filip