maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.07
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-02-06 through 2012-02-12 As of 2012-02-13 Extras contains: total items 2825 ( 2) total open items 961 ( 1) open bugs 544 ( 1) critical/blocker 44 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 9 reopened 7 unconfirmed 327 ( 1) open enhancements 417 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 ( 1) “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 178 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
Evopedia: Offline Wikipedia Reader
Want to read some of your favorite articles on Wikipedia ? But what if you don’t have any internet available for some reason? Or maybe you just want to save up money or battery charge for keeping internet connection
Epiphany marches on
Previously in this space we saw how the bright future of Epiphany looked like, and vague promises about incremental steps towards it were done. A month later, Epiphany 3.3.4 is out there , so let’s see how well we’ve done. There’s a lot of new stuff here, so let’s go step by step.
Samsung's Bada will merge with Tizen. Just WTF is going on here?
According to a Forbes report, South Korean consumer electronics heavyweight Samsung is integrating the still-new, still-unreleased open source operating system Tizen into its surprisingly popular Bada mobile operating system. Tizen is the latest incarnation of the seemingly ever-changing mobile Linux distro formerly known as MeeGo; which itself was the combination of Nokia's Maemo and Intel and …
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.02
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-01-02 through 2012-01-08 As of 2012-01-09 Extras contains: total items 2799 ( 3) total open items 942 ( 7) open bugs 530 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 2 reopened 7 unconfirmed 328 ( 1) open enhancements 412 ( 5) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 172 ( 4) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 7 weeks): (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.01
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-12-26 through 2012-01-01 As of 2012-01-02 Extras contains: total items 2796 ( 3) total open items 949 ( 1) open bugs 532 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 2 reopened 7 unconfirmed 329 open enhancements 417 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 176 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
A tale of just another Linux kernel bug
As part of a bigger effort to get my Nokia N900 in good shape for development, I decided to track down an issue with the keyboard; I could type ‘a’, but not ‘A’ or any special characters, so no ‘shift’ or ‘ctrl’ or anything special. Trying to figure out what was going on took me through an unexpected journey, which is not remarkable, but I think it’s a good example of what many kernel developers (and low level developers) constantly go through, and as such, might be interesting for some people to read. Keycodes So, first things first.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.49
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-28 through 2011-12-04 As of 2011-12-05 Extras contains: total items 2784 ( 5) total open items 947 ( 66) open bugs 527 ( 54) critical/blocker 39 ( 5) “easyfix” 4 ( 1) “moreinfo” 3 ( 2) “crash” 2 “patch” 2 ( 2) reopened 6 unconfirmed 327 ( 32) open enhancements 420 ( 12) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 ( 
Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 5 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.48
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-21 through 2011-11-27 As of 2011-11-28 Extras contains: total items 2779 ( 7) total open items 1013 ( 4) open bugs 581 ( 3) critical/blocker 44 ( 1) “easyfix” 5 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 359 ( 3) open enhancements 432 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 187 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.48
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-21 through 2011-11-27 As of 2011-11-28 Extras contains: total items 2779 ( 7) total open items 1013 ( 4) open bugs 581 ( 3) critical/blocker 44 ( 1) “easyfix” 5 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 359 ( 3) open enhancements 432 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 187 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.