[SailfishDevel] FOSDEM Community follow-up - open source app community

[dcaliste at free.fr]

Hello David and list members,

   I definitely like Open Source and Sailfish is a nice way IMHO to use desktop
libraries in mobile world (I mean that someone coming from a desktop linux feels
at home with Sailfish). I join you thinking that Sailfish needs a repo where
packages are built from source (for auditability and so on). The point of this
mail is to ask how can one help for this ?

Selon David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com>:
> I don't think we need full automation of the checks yet - but I do think we
> can
> clearly state the boundaries: open source only; auditability; community QA...
I've just registered as a user in Mer OBS. Do you think it is ready now to
submit an open source app in sailfish chum 1.0.3.8 testing ? Sources are
currently on github.

> > If the app builds on a clean SDK, then it's highly likely to build out
> > of the box also on OBS.
This app is building fine in the SDK.

> Good. We need more docs though.
May I help here ? For instance : on the project page of sailfish chum 1.0.3.8
testing, it specifies that guidelines are in "tbr #sailfishos", it may be more
explicit, I don't know what is it.

> > 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
If it's not yet ready for packaging submitted project, how can I help to make
things go on ?

Thanks for building the infrastructure for Open Source around Sailfish.

Have a nice day,

Damien.