#mer-meeting: Sailfish OS, open source, collaboration – 21st February 2019

Meeting summary

1. 1. Meeting information and agenda can be found here: https://lists.sailfishos.org/pipermail/devel/2019-February/008559.html (Jaymzz, 09:00:14)
   
   
2. Brief introduction (5 min). Please prefix your name/handle with # info (Jaymzz, 09:00:32)
   1. Cedric Heintz, community member (ced117, 09:00:55)
   2. James Noori - sailor @ Jolla (Jaymzz, 09:00:55)
   3. David Greaves, Mer guy and Sailor (lbt, 09:01:03)
   4. Leszek Lesner, Community + Dev (leszek, 09:01:52)
   5. Lewis Rockliffe - now broadcasting from southern hemisphere (r0kk3rz, 09:02:22)
   6. Pasi Karkkainen, community member (pasik, 09:02:33)
   7. Lukas Karas - community member, developer (Karry, 09:02:49)
   8. Damien Caliste, community dev (dcaliste, 09:03:06)
   9. Simonas Leleiva - privateer for Jolla (sledges, 09:03:41)
   10. Chris Adams, developer at Jolla (chriadam, 09:03:44)
   11. Louis - community member (louisdk, 09:04:59)
   
   
3. Future of Alien Dalvik for Xperia X (asked by LouisDK – 15 min) (Jaymzz, 09:06:10)
   1. Alien Davik for Xperia X is currently stuck at Android 4.4. Is there any chance we'll see a version bump? (Jaymzz, 09:06:20)
   2. The Android application support in Sailfish OS upgrade from Android 4.4.4 apps to Android 8.1 apps is a major architectural rework, and depends on a whole new hardware adaptation software (aka baseport) based on Android 8. The Sailfish OS hardware adaptation for Xperia X devices is based on Android 6 baseport, which as such is incompatible with the our new Android application support.With Jolla’s very limited resources, we h (Jaymzz, 09:08:10)
   
   
4. : Compass support in Alien Dalvik (asked by LouisDK – 10 min) (Jaymzz, 09:11:54)
   1. The compass has native support for Xperia X however it doesn't work in Alien Dalvik. Is there any chance that this will get fixed on Xperia X? What is the status of compass support for alien dalvik on XA2? (Jaymzz, 09:12:06)
   2. Compass works in Alien Dalvik on XA2. (Jaymzz, 09:12:20)
   3. David Llewellyn-Jones, dev at Jolla and sailing late (flypig, 09:15:36)
   4. Fra, late community member (fravaccaro, 09:16:18)
   
   
5. Alien Dalvik support for Gemini PDA / Cosmo communicator (asked by LouisDK – 10 min) (Jaymzz, 09:26:25)
   1. As the sailfish adaption for the Gemini PDA is based upon Android 7.1 the Alien Dalvik version for the Gemini PDA will be locked at Android 4.4. Is that correct? Will the Cosmo communicator be based on a higher Android version thus allowing the Alien Dalvik version from the XA2 port? (Jaymzz, 09:26:44)
   
   
6. Keyboard shortcuts for Gemini PDA / Cosmo communicator (asked by LouisDK – 5 min) (Jaymzz, 09:34:31)
   1. Would Jolla be able to link certain keyboard shortcuts to certain swipe features regardless of keyboard support in the specific apps? (Jaymzz, 09:34:41)
   
   
7. Explore DocuWiki for the community wiki (asked by fravaccaro – 15 min) (Jaymzz, 09:53:08)
   1. continuing from a previous mer-meeting talk, I would like to present docuwiki as a possible container for the community efforts. Some upsides: (Jaymzz, 09:53:19)
   2. https://jollacommunity.it/wiki/ (Jaymzz, 09:55:29)
   3. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-docs/contributing/contributing-to-existing-docs/ (Jaymzz, 10:08:11)
   
   
8. general discussion (15 min) (Jaymzz, 10:17:15)
   1. contribution meetings with dcaliste happen in #sailfishos channel at 0800 UTC on Tuesdays. We're hoping for more contributors to join us :-) Especially e.g. Sailfish Office, but any contribution discussion appreciated. (chriadam, 10:21:56)
   
   
9. next meeting time and date (Jaymzz, 10:35:36)
   1. Next meeting will be held on March 7th 2019 at 09:00 UTC (Jaymzz, 10:35:44)

Action items

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1. Jaymzz (87)
2. lbt (54)
3. chriadam (25)
4. M4rtinK (24)
5. r0kk3rz (19)
6. leszek (19)
7. ApBBB (17)
8. louisdk (15)
9. fravaccaro (15)
10. sledges (10)
11. Kaffeine (10)
12. dcaliste (9)
13. pasik (7)
14. kimmoli (3)
15. merbot (2)
16. ced117 (2)
17. flypig (1)
18. Karry (1)
19. Coolgeek (1)