Andrea Scarpino

Hey Sailors, I've mixed feelings about OpenRepos. What are yours?

I believe the average user should *not* use it, but I see why we need it.

All my apps are published to OpenRepos, but I want to change this.

Harbour is the first choice and then I publish to Chum to allow community ports to get them. My OpenRepos repo should list only those app that don't fit Chum.

#SailfishOS

Apr 4 at 8:40pmWeb
Show threadekari1d ago
@ilpianista I agree. OpenRepos had an important role, but now I would prefer it to be phased out with Harbour and Chum being the two options.
Show threadaegg1d ago
@ilpianista Fully agree, sadly some of the most usefull apps are only there. It is nice to use for betatesting though.
Show threadRandy Simons1d ago
@ilpianista Chum GUI does lack a "what's new" feature, which Open Repos / Storeman does have. That hurts discoverability of new apps.
Show threadRuben De Smet23h ago
@RandySimons @ilpianista Is this something that's been posted on the Chum issue tracker or on the forum? I think this is an important feature, and it literally never came to my mind.
Show threadAndrea Scarpino21h ago
@rubdos
That's a convenient feature, I agree. There's an open issue and a stale PR https://github.com/sailfishos-chum/sailfishos-chum-gui/issues/126
@RandySimons
List updated packages · Issue #126 · sailfishos-chum/sailfishos-chum-gui

As I couldn't find any issue filed regarding it, I am filing it here. One frequent request that we are getting is: Please consider making the Chum GUI app show all new submissions somehow. Currentl...

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Show threadRuben De Smet20h ago
@ilpianista @RandySimons @piggz your WIP PR is being appreciated in this thread!
Show threadAndrew Branson1d ago

@ilpianista I do agree, though they all have their place. I can't put Quickddit on Chum because it needs to be built with a secret (API key), and if it still broke the harbour rules I could only put it on Openrepos.

I thought community ports got Harbour access though? Chum exists for apps that can't abide by all the restrictions of the harbour.

Show threadAndrea Scarpino21h ago
@abranson I agree that missing support for secrets is a problem. However, I suppose I can just run `strings harbour-quickddit` to read it? 🤔
Show threadAndrew Branson20h ago
@ilpianista sure, but that's a couple of extra steps away from it being searchable on github.
Show threadRuben De Smet23h ago
@ilpianista I agree. With Whisperfish, I would like to move to a faster-pace rollout on Chum + less frequent releases on the Store, with OR being the fallback if Chum/Habour are too restrictive for certain "experimental" features.