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Jolla should endorse and support an open source app community for Sailfish apps. This would go well together with Sailfish being an (mostly) open source platform.

There is already a Sailfish Target on Mer OBS and even a (mostly ignored) community project. This should be leveraged by Jolla to foster the growth of an open source app community. This can serve both as an incubator and as a safe haven for apps. Incubator before they fit harbour, safe haven for those who are denied to lay anchor in harbour due to API usage and dependencies. OBS and BOSS as the backends would guarantee that the apps are open source and built against latest SailfishOS version and automated QA processes ensure a good base level and keep maintenance work low.

You could see it as the revival of the apps garage concept from maemo times.

It could also integrate with the open repos concept to add a reliable backbone to it and benefit from their work on a client app. Or the apps-for-meego client.

Jolla should endorse and support an open source app community for Sailfish apps. This would go well together with Sailfish being an (mostly) open source platform.

There is already a Sailfish Target Target on Mer OBS OBS and even a (mostly ignored) community project. project. This should be leveraged by Jolla to foster the growth of an open source app community. This can serve both as an incubator and as a safe haven for apps. Incubator before they fit harbour, safe haven for those who are denied to lay anchor in harbour due to API usage and dependencies. OBS and BOSS as the backends would guarantee that the apps are open source and built against latest SailfishOS version version and automated QA processes ensure a good base level and keep maintenance work low.

You could see it as the revival of the apps garage concept from maemo times. times.

It could also integrate with the open repos concept to add a reliable backbone to it and benefit from their work on a client app. Or the apps-for-meego client.

Jolla should endorse and support an open source app community for Sailfish apps. This would go well together with Sailfish being an (mostly) open source platform.

There is already a Sailfish Target on Mer OBS and even a (mostly ignored) community project. This should be leveraged by Jolla to foster the growth of an open source app community. This can serve both as an incubator and as a safe haven for apps. Incubator before they fit harbour, safe haven for those who are denied to lay anchor in harbour due to API usage and dependencies. OBS and BOSS as the backends would guarantee that the apps are open source and built against latest SailfishOS version and automated QA processes ensure a good base level and keep maintenance work low.

You could see it as the revival of the apps garage concept from maemo times. , or the Apps-for-MeeGo community project that worked well for e.g. the N9 leveraging MeeGo community OBS.

It could also integrate with the open repos concept to add a reliable backbone to it and benefit from their work on a client app. Or the apps-for-meego client.