Thread: Help NielDK develop for Sailfish (Jolla Tablet & phone)
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2014-11-22 , 22:54
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Originally Posted by ade View Post
Sorry for being sceptical about this:

1. Afaik NielDK has a decent job, and wages in Denmark are not that bad.
I can have sympathy for guys like CepiPerez, who's stuff got stolen and lost his job. People like him and Coderus actually create new software and therefore additional value to make a device differ from others.
Please, don't go personal. We don't know the real financial state of Jolla and we contributed to the Jolla Tablet. Does NielDK need to open his personal life (job, financial situation, etc) ? No.

Originally Posted by ade View Post
2. I don't understand the need for "development devices, software and hardware"
As NielDK mainly compiles/packages other persons (command line) software, that could be done on a simple PC with free SDK/emulator software.
Porting & packaging Linux softwares to Mer & Sailfish take a lot of time. I also do it in Mer OBS. Some projects take many hours or even days to port from OpenSuse, etc, due to different or missing dependencies in Mer / Sailfish OS. Some upstream versions don't compile in Mer OBS, so it is needed to use older versions, etc. Calculate how much costs 1 hour from a programmer and you will see that many softwares ported to Mer & Sailfish costed a lot from the people who packaged them.

Testing Mer & Sailfish is better done with real devices. I for example installed Sailfish on my 2nd Nokia N9, on my Nexus 4 (bought to try Ubuntu Touch & Sailfish) and on my Jolla smartphone. I've bought a 2nd Jolla smartphone just to test softwares and OTH hardware ideas. I've also bought Jolla Tablet mainly to help me test Sailfish softwares adapted to tablet screen. So, it costs a lot of money to have Sailfish devices to properly test (performance, compatibility, landscape screen mode, etc) softwares, CLI ou GUI ones.

PS.: I'm not asking any funds for me.

Last but not least, if you think porting, compiling and packaging softwares is a piece of cake, so try to contribute, e.g., packaging Fortran (gfortran) to Mer & Sailfish OS.

Originally Posted by ade View Post
3. And a bit more unrelated: the constant goodbye's, whether it is for bootloaders, batteries or council issues. He urgently insisted on removing his TMO account, only to create a new account within weeks.
I think community should motivate people. Even more developers that work for free. NielDK case.
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Last edited by rcolistete; 2014-11-22 at 23:01.
 

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