5 years ago in 2017, I got tonsillitis and had to take a sick leave for a week. These days, I started working on Storeman with little experience in mobile software development and almost no knowledge of QML. I borrowed a lot from Warehouse for SailfishOS and the official store at the beginning. And of course, I drew inspiration from our dear community. It was a productive 5 years full of fun. Now I feel like a more experienced developer who was able to bring a little benefit to others.
Unfortunately, it has now become difficult for me to maintain Storeman. But I understand that I have no right to just abandon it, so I ask the community to continue its development.
Thank you for you investment! I have no knowledge QML or mobile development, but once I get more time (hope this summer/autumn) Iād like to contribute to SailfishOS.
Mee too!
Iām on Linux, Ubuntu 20.04 focal (x86-64), Cinnamon 4.4.8 GUI, Kernel 5.13.0-30-generic, on a Laptop. Screen size is only 1366 x 768 pixel, otherwise the laptop is running like a charm!
Has this a chance, or di I need a bigger screen?
Further, I need a little help to install an offline development system to try my luckā¦
As @pherjung says, the instructions are sufficient for your setup. I have something similar running, BUT, I wouldnāt find working without a second monitor comfortable.
Some people āreallyā prefer using the docker approach, but Iām happy using Virtualbox, even if itās a bit dated in the focal release of ubuntu.
And ā¦ Iāve forked. Letās see if I have something to contribute.
Thank you for your help @poetaster , @cyberlyra and @pherjung .
Because this is OT in this āFuture of Storemanā thread, I will open a new one in the Platform Development section. Iām sure this is not the last time I have to ask for helping me with setting up the development environment.
As long as you keep your two Storeman repositories open, people will pose Pull Requests, because these are the original repositories. Are you willing to handle these PRs in the future (i.e., review them etc.), which means, do you still want to be the maintainer?
If not, I strongly suggest to āarchiveā both Storeman repositories (i.e., switch them to read-only), so somebody else will volunteer as a new maintainer, and new PRs will be submitted to these repositories.
@poetaster, are you volunteering to become the new maintainer for Storeman and Storeman Installer?
P.S.: I have a couple of PRs open at the original (mentaljamās) Storeman and Storeman Installer repositories.
Iām not sure it would be wise for me to do so, but if no one else steps up to be maintainer, I will do so.
Iām currently in a position with, for instance, āmachines vs. machinesā where Iām working from the fork and have to āwaitā for things to happen in the source. Itās not always ideal. But, in that case itās not so critical as long as I donāt want to drive development. Frankly, I have a lot to do, but itās mostly ānon-criticalāā¦
I think when it comes to something like a front end to the most important alternative source of software for SFOS that one should consider carefully. But then, @mentaljam maybe daily maintenance is not so demanding?
To paraphrase @olf from a discussion elsewhere, ideal would be a repo with a number of contributors having write privs. @olf, would you mind posting (I think it was from a patchmanager thread?) thoughts on repo maint. here? Thanks!
Most preferable solution would be to make an organisation in github (or gitlab, but since most of the Sailfish contribution is already in Github, maybe that would be the best course of action) for community driven sailfish apps. That way when people change, itās easy to keep the boat () floating without doing this every time when somebody has no longer time, energy or interest to keep developing for Sailfish. Inviting people to organisation is much easier than handling repository migration from one person to another.
O.K., as there seem to be a couple of people (@poetaster, @pherjung, @Sefriol) interested in joining a GitHub-āorganisationā, I am willing to handle the process of creating the āorganisationā and inviting the interested ones.
So @mentaljam, you can transfer the ownership of your repo to the GitHub-āorganisationā handle storeman-developers .
I assume you also want to be invited to storeman-developers, right?
P.S.: There are actually three repos of interest for the storeman-developers org.
