New Q&A site for Jolla/SailfishOS

[lbt]

just a note that there's a new Q&A site at
https://together.jolla.com/

Merry christmas :)

[mariusmssj]

Yay they opened it now :)

[billranton]

It appears to be intended to be a stackoverflow style expert Q&A site, but people are shoving feature requests and bug reports in it anyway. Ah well.

[shmerl]

Good start! I hope regular forum is also coming.

[Elleo]

It appears to be intended to be a stackoverflow style expert Q&A site, but people are shoving feature requests and bug reports in it anyway. Ah well.

It's based on some generic Q&A software (Askbot), but the intention from Jolla's side appears to be for both general questions and feature requests/bugs/ideas/etc. From their press release:

Jolla believes in co-creation and wants to empower its users to participate in developing Jolla continuously further and better. To facilitate co-creation and collect feedback, Jolla will be opening a portal at together.jolla.com where customers can discuss and vote on which features they would like to see in Jolla, report issues and submit ideas.

[lbt]

I agree it needs some organisation... Low started something and I commented here:

https://together.jolla.com/question/427/break-down-your-ideasfeature-requests/#post-id-496

There's always going to be "Can we have XYZ?" questions - and they're valuable. But they're not, as you say, stackoverflow-like. That's my idea to seperate them.

We also didn't want a forum at this point (being well aware that lots of community people are here) - so askbot seemed a good solution.

Thoughtfull feedback and discussion on organisation is welcome.

[mikecomputing]

Just could resist make an app its just a profofconcept using askbot API:

Unofficial Jolla Together (http://7b4.se/sailfish/default/download/files.filename.9822f2cf12a8033e.686172626f75722d75 6e6f6666696369616c746f6765746865722d302e312d312e61 726d7637686c2e72706d.rpm?_signature=27e3776ff393fd 4d2341bf51a72526c50d056854)

download and install using:

pkcon install-local /home/nemo/Downloads/harbour-unofficialtogether-0.1-1.armv7hl.rpm :D

and source on github (https://github.com/mike7b4/unofficialtogether)

[billranton]

It's based on some generic Q&A software (Askbot), but the intention from Jolla's side appears to be for both general questions and feature requests/bugs/ideas/etc. From their press release:

Agreed. This post from Carsten about skunkworks is very exciting.
https://together.jolla.com/question/476/how-would-you-like-a-tv-with-a-hdmi-stick-connected-to-interact-with-your-jolla/

[ibins]

BRILLIANT move!

together.jolla.com is the perfect name for the perfect site: Where else can you deliver your personal opinions in a way that jolla can actually review and consider them? TMO is a huge rescoure of such things, but being a forum has its handicap and usefulnes for jolla.

I watched together.jolla.com for merely a couple of hours and I'm really impressed: I've never seen more concentrated and sensible hints for existing bugs and feature requests formulated that well.

Congratulations to you on that site! Actually I can see a loyal and contributing "community" forming around the product you delivered that well. :-)

Edit: And what other phone producing company has achived something like this? I know none! This is really unlike ;-)

[lbt]

@mikecomputing:

As a proof-of-concept this:
https://build.merproject.org/project/show?project=sailfishos%3Achum%3A1.0.1.10

could be maemo-autobuilder and maemo-extras

[juiceme]

What I find nice is that the most voted suggestion on together is "Differentiate native SailfishOS and Android apps in Jolla store"

I'd really like to see it done in a neat way, as I almost installed an android app by mistake :eek:

[aegis]

What I find nice is that the most voted suggestion on together is "Differentiate native SailfishOS and Android apps in Jolla store"

I'd really like to see it done in a neat way, as I almost installed an android app by mistake :eek:

I've done that twice. I think they need to add a remorse timer before the install begins, at least for Android apps :D

I'm still not sure why the Android apps need to be there at all unless Jolla are hoping at some point to turn the store into a money making venture and make money from the Android apps.

We also need a "Differentiate shitty RSS feed apps from real apps" flag or a Store manager at Jolla with a cricket bat to re-educate anyone who lets them in to the store.

[lbt]

Why block app developers based on the language and framework they choose to use?

It's a valid request from users that they want android apps to be distinct - but, for example, I (kinda) use an opensource android app called MobileOrg which offers integration to Emacs org mode. I think things like that may are worth putting in harbour.

So I don't think anyone should be prevented from easily maintaing android packages for Jolla