Dear Community, We’re about to release the Open Source version of Fairphone OS. To make sure we’ve squashed most bugs, we hope to get critical feedback from our community and we’re looking for more people to join the testing process. We would like to have input on the installation process, switchi…

I understand it in the way that they want to follow the “Google release model” to have more control. Release the binaries first, code later. It’s maybe not the worst idea … as long as the code ends up in the repo in time. But so far there are no official comments about it, so it’s hard to tell.

that is the point. there are hardly any official comments at all. the announced release date of “first quarter” just disappeared from the page, instead of explaining why it is taking longer. Fairphone’s information policy is neither fair nor open. I see that there are reasons why only testers can…

I believe the main reason why the beta group is closed is to avoid confusing people about issues and features that may not exist in the final release.

that’s hardly any more confusing than having groups about FP1 and groups about FP2… you will always have people who mix that up. But you also have loads of people who patiently will explain it to them

[quote=“Bergziege, post:21, topic:16743”] you will always have people who mix that up. But you also have loads of people who patiently will explain it to them [/quote] Indeed. And compared to other forums people are treated very nicely here. I don’t see the scenario mentioned above. Also clear …

We use Gerrit and not Git(hub) to publish the code. You can already find it here: http://code.fairphone.com/gerrit But as publishing code means more then just throwing it out there, we are waiting with announcing this. We need to make sure we have the resources to deal with bug reports, write pro…

But I sure hope somebody hops over to the beta thread once in a while and has a look :wink:

Your right and also want the release out. We were already on the brink of releasing a binary image of the FPOSOS but then there was also this little thing and that little thing so we pushed the release further and further out. So in hindsight, it might been better to have something maybe not so per…

From what I read here, I suppose it is a little late to volunteer as beta tester, right? I am away on holidays and thought to join you as soon as I find the time to make sure that I really properly back-uped my data and settings…

Hey @merci , you can always mail us to apply. After we release this version there will be another version for which we highly appreciate your time and energy to test it.

Fairphone Open Source OS is almost ready. Want to test?

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freibadschwimmer April 25, 2016, 3:39pm 34

Yes, which is fairly easy since the OOS test version comes with TWRP as standard recovery

For installing openGAPPS see here: