#mer-meeting: Sailfish OS, open source, collaboration – 17th October 2019

Meeting summary

1. 1. Meeting information and agenda can be found here: https://lists.sailfishos.org/pipermail/devel/2019-October/008889.html (Jaymzz, 08:00:35)
   
   
2. Brief introduction (5 min). Please prefix your name/handle with # info (Jaymzz, 08:01:04)
   1. James Noori - sailor @ Jolla (Jaymzz, 08:01:13)
   2. Otto Mäkelä, community member (ExTechOp, 08:02:20)
   3. Martin Ebnöther, Community Member (Venty, 08:02:37)
   4. Ville Nummela - sailor @ Jolla (ViGe, 08:02:42)
   5. Nicolas, community member, new here (Nico[m], 08:03:03)
   6. Damien Caliste, community member (dcaliste, 08:03:54)
   7. Timur Kristóf, developer and community member (Venemo, 08:04:07)
   8. Pasi Karkkainen, community (pasik, 08:04:27)
   9. Keeper of the Keys community member/dev (KeeperoftheKeys, 08:04:58)
   
   
3. Official stance on patches (10 min – asked by JacekJagosz) (Jaymzz, 08:06:30)
   1. Andrew Branson, sailor @ Jolla (abranson, 08:06:32)
   2. For years there have been hundreds of patches fixing bugs and improving the experience. Why aren't they (or the ideas) included into this opensource OS (that I know of)? 1: Are there licensing problems? 2: Would you be willing to officially embrace patches; which means, you would implement a few best or most suitable patches or their ideas into the main release (with agreement of the author)? They usually indicate what actual (Jaymzz, 08:06:46)
   3. : https://openrepos.net/content/anig/kids-mode (Jaymzz, 08:07:15)
   4. 2: https://openrepos.net/content/fravaccaro/patch-silicamail (Jaymzz, 08:07:32)
   5. 3: https://openrepos.net/content/alina/patch-settings-messages-layout (Jaymzz, 08:07:47)
   6. 4: https://openrepos.net/content/cornerman/patch-no-home-carousel (Jaymzz, 08:08:01)
   7. We don't have a process in general to take in community patches. However, we can evaluate the situation case by case. As long as the patches fix a real bug, we would definitely consider integrating them. The author would have to be willing to sign a CLA and potentially change the licence (e.g. we can't accept them if they're GPLv3 right now), and we might ask them to make some changes to better fit the OS. Bug fixes are separa (Jaymzz, 08:08:34)
   
   
4. Status update on assisting community with fingerprint support on community ports (5 min, asked by piggz) (Jaymzz, 08:13:30)
   1. In the past there has been positive words about helping the community bring fingerprint support to their devices, either with code or documentation. Is there any update on this initiative? (Jaymzz, 08:13:41)
   2. This is a difficult topic as fingerprint support is typically dependent on adaptation packages and those are ususally closed source and community can't build packages and we have no pipeline to build/provide such packages either. Manual tinkering on individual devices is of course possible by community, but we can't provide much help there. (Jaymzz, 08:14:08)
   
   
5. general discussion (15 min) (Jaymzz, 08:17:11)
   1. https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7948&idPhone2=8986&idPhone3=9353#f5122,*,* (KeeperoftheKeys, 08:46:07)
   2. https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7948&idPhone2=8986&idPhone3=9840#f5122,*,* (KeeperoftheKeys, 08:47:41)
   
   
6. next meeting time and date (5 min) (Jaymzz, 08:55:57)
   1. Next meeting will be held on October 31st 2019 at 08:00 UTC (Jaymzz, 08:56:16)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. Jaymzz (44)
2. KeeperoftheKeys (29)
3. Venemo (22)
4. flypig (16)
5. Nico[m] (13)
6. dcaliste (8)
7. piggz[m] (6)
8. abranson (5)
9. ExTechOp (4)
10. merbot (2)
11. pasik (2)
12. Venty (1)
13. ViGe (1)
14. vknecht (1)