Android Enshittification process -> Let's promote Sailfish OS

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There has been a lot of news recently about the confirmation of the enshittification of Android. It’s becoming increasingly visible. Why not take this as an opportunity to promote Sailfish and encourage Android developers and FOSS enthusiasts to get on board?

Please be constructive. We all know about the issues with Qt and the browser. The aim of this topic is to brainstorm together and find new ways to improve our beloved OS. :slight_smile:

How to double new user in one year

  • Ease installations from Apps | LinuxPhoneApps.org
  • Create a new showcase, for instance hello.sailfishos.org
  • Remove traces from Google (NTP)
  • Define what kind of user should we attract
  • Define paper cut bugs
    • How to provide more logs
    • How can the community speed up the fix?
    • Fix them
  • Speak about Sailfish on technical newspaper (LinuxFR, next.ink, etc.)
  • Install party
  • List realistic new features
    • What do you miss? Only features that impact the community and on which various users will agree

How to double new devs in 6 month

  • Update official website, last post is from 2018
    • Personally, I would hide the blog post
  • Allow paid apps
  • Android Translation Layer on Community Ports
  • [Jolla Store] Be less restrictive when uploading apps. See this post
  • Organize Hackathon
  • Promote Sailfish in Technical Universities (giving free material, create lessons for teacher)
  • Qt update
  • Open-sourcing more components
  • Newer dev tools
  • GTK? Or perhaps port Silica to GTK (I’m not sure if it’s doable or technically even possible)
  • Collaborate with other project (Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, Thunderbird, Maemo Leste etc.)
    • MicroG
  • Leave GitHub

Paper Cut

Let’s priorise and focus bugs in open-source components

Accounts

Call

Browser

  • Update the web engine

Calendar

Bug name Bug Report Tracked ? Priority (justify in comments) What do to fix it ?
Unable to set random password Link1 Yes

Android AppSupport

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Great post and 100% support this! To attract new users at least the knowledge that SFOS exists needs to be increased. I found about SailfishOS from r/BuyFromEU subreddit which would be good place to market if(/hopefully when) Jolla launches next gen phone with better HW.

Also up to date wiki with clear information about known bugs or missing features would be helpful (but don’t know who would keep that list up to date). Also it has felt that most common question with SFOS have been regarding usability of banking and ID apps. Complete list with all reported android apps working / not working would be easiest way to provide this information. The current post about banking apps is great but could be expanded, even maybe added to some “Often asked” section. Again, don’t know who could keep the list up to date.

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Good that you’re speaking up about it. I think some users forget that the documentation is open to pull requests. Each file has a link where you can suggest modifications.

For instance, I started this document to list all community ports. It would be awesome to merge it into the official documentation.

EDIT: Feel free to improve it :wink:

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I’m wondering whether Exchange bugs should be fixed. Even Thunderbird has developed a module to configure Exchange accounts. As many users can’t choose their professional provider, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to improve the reliability of Gmail and Exchange.

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