Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2010.30

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2010-07-19 through 2010-07-25

An addition to the Bug Jar this week is sparklines. These squiggly lines show the change of each measurement over time and indicate by their ending dot whether the value of a particular item has risen (orange), fallen (blue), or remained the same (black) this week. The sparklines pack 53 weeks of measurements into a short length of line, allowing the trends of a year's time to be recognized with a glance and making a comparison to the same week last year immediately available.

As of 2010-07-26 Maemo Official Platform contains 3283 items (10), including 712 open issues :

• open bugs 508
• critical/blocker 24
• "easyfix" 8
• "moreinfo" 110
• "crash" 21
• "patch" 23
• reopened 29 (1)
• unconfirmed 202 (4)
• open enhancements 204
• "easyfix" 1
• "moreinfo" 6
• "patch" 4
• reopened 10
• unconfirmed 34 (1)

Top Tens

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (6%) 6063 [Telephony] voice calls inaudible most of the time, but not through speakers or earplugs
2. (5%) 5880 [Connectivity] A2DP unstable when WiFi is on.
3. (4%) 10366 [Desktop platform] MyNokia SMS sent after update without any action from the user
4. (3%) 8435 [Desktop platform] Strange readings from pressure sensitive applications using gtk.gdk.AXIS_PRESSURE
5. (2%) 2501 [Desktop platform] Hardware keyboard doesn't switch Input language when pressing Ctrl+Space (+1 this week)
6. (2%) 6931 [Desktop platform] After installation of software last icon in list has default icon instead of own one (+1 this week)
7. (2%) 7772 [System software] Black screen in sunlight for incoming/outgoing call and T&K unlock not working (+1 this week)
8. (2%) 6784 [Multimedia] Crackling sounds with individual ringtones due to conversion to mono WAV (+1 this week)
9. (2%) 9238 [Telephony] N900 loses cellular network connection regularly when signal strength is low. (new this week)
10. (2%) 6359 [Location] Geolocation show the wrong country when more than one country code in cities database

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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks):

1. (7%) 6368 [Connectivity] No way for car kit to access contact information (PBAP)
2. (7%) 9314 [Licensing Change Requests] relicense BME
3. (4%) 5371 [Desktop platform] Allow same shortcut to be used on multiple home screen desktops
4. (4%) 793 [System software] lock screen should have 'if lost' info (e.g. display owner contact info)
5. (4%) 6685 [Core] Generic pc105 layout is not supported
6. (3%) 1043 [Connectivity] Add priority to defined wifi connections
7. (3%) 5835 [Synchronization] Mail for Exchange does not Sync all Information for Google Contacts
8. (3%) 6357 [UI Specification] HildonPannableArea: Support arrow keys (in Image Viewer/Photos & RSS feed reader & MicroB)
9. (3%) 8483 [Connectivity] Bluetooth HID does not work
10. (3%) 5791 [Connectivity] Unable to set alternate APN

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Ten hottest open bugs:

1. 9138 [Licensing Change Requests] HildonFancyButton - request to have its licensing changed to LGPL 2.1
2. 8645 [Core] External vfat mmc corrupted, file tables damaged? all files missing
3. 8862 [Data] Music, videos and pictures aren't appearing in my default media player.
4. 10685 [Desktop platform] The contacts application is crashing when Skype contact name with unusual Unicode characters is added
5. 3755 [Development platform] DNS breaks from rootstraps
6. 4607 [Development platform] Sbrsh not included in Fremantle SDK devkits (CPU Transparency not working)
7. 6501 [Connectivity] Major lag after pairing with bluetooth headset and rebooting
8. 7796 [Connectivity] Call goes silent or bluetooth disconnects in car
9. 6345 [Synchronization] First Synchronization between N900 and Exchange 2007 Server fails
10. 6853 [Synchronization] Fetching contacts from S60 phone (E75) incomplete

Ten hottest open enhancements (unchanged for 20 weeks):

1. 793 [System software] lock screen should have 'if lost' info (e.g. display owner contact info)
2. 7019 [Licensing Change Requests] Release source code of "getbootstate"
3. 356 [Core] Kernel lacks IPv6 support
4. 995 [Connectivity] DNS resolution ignores local domain
5. 1043 [Connectivity] Add priority to defined wifi connections
6. 1050 [Connectivity] "Connect automatically" should be connection specific
7. 1249 [UI Specification] Maemo does not have persistent state
8. 1574 [Connectivity] Certificate Manager and WLAN EAP-TLS
9. 2043 [Development platform] Development environment should support x86_64 and other non-x86 platforms
10. 2076 [UI Specification] Adding file directories (i.e. Documents, MMC) to Task Launcher/Navigator

Ten oldest open bugs (unchanged for 15 weeks):

1. 796 [Desktop platform] Fix hard-coded paths in osso-af-startup build files
2. 1045 [Data] Media player breaks the original sorting of songs in a CD
3. 1792 [Core] chage assumes shadow passwords enabled, hence fails
4. 2051 [Connectivity] Unable to connect to EAP PEAP MSCHAPV2 without certificates
5. 2168 [Desktop platform] API needs destroy functions for user data
6. 2259 [Desktop platform] can't use stroke as dead key
7. 2441 [Desktop platform] Apps failing to launch without any feedback why it failed
8. 2468 [Development platform] scratchbox should not include windres for arm
9. 2501 [Desktop platform] Hardware keyboard doesn't switch Input language when pressing Ctrl+Space
10. 2747 [Core] inconsistent mmc device naming at boot time when one card is missing

Ten oldest open enhancements (unchanged for 10 weeks):

1. 356 [Core] Kernel lacks IPv6 support
2. 700 [Core] Split busybox into busybox and busybox_root
3. 708 [UI Specification] Connection icon should show signalstrength
4. 793 [System software] lock screen should have 'if lost' info (e.g. display owner contact info)
5. 995 [Connectivity] DNS resolution ignores local domain
6. 1002 [Connectivity] WPA pre-shared key should allow HEX input
7. 1043 [Connectivity] Add priority to defined wifi connections
8. 1050 [Connectivity] "Connect automatically" should be connection specific
9. 1109 [Desktop platform] Use english strings if locale does not exist after restore (instead of logical strings)
10. 1232 [Connectivity] preferences for listing networks in "selection connection" window

New Items

8 bugs were opened:

• 10966 [Location] using liblocation makes client app use at least 10% CPU all the time
• 10979 [Synchronization] Not all mail is shown
• 10980 [Desktop platform] Invoking dashboard when browser in portrait mode goes to desktop instead
• 10993 [Synchronization] Outlook Sync ignores Hermes Pix
• 10994 [Desktop platform] duplicate run of hildon-startup-progress at boot
• 10998 [System software] MCE communication bug with DBUS permissions
• 10999 [System software] MCE doesn't receive request for powermenu_call via DBUS
• 11000 [System software] Improve MCE performance with simple patch

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

2 enhancements were opened:

• 10963 [Telephony] Short vibro on start/stop conversation
• 10974 [Desktop platform] Behavior of "long press" on a key should have a standard configuration option

Resolved Bugs

3 bugs were resolved "fixed":

• 4520 [Licensing Change Requests] Cannot build libhildondesktop1 on Mer: No source for libiphb0
• 5589 [Desktop platform] HildonPickerButton should have iter-based get/set_selected/active()
• 9389 [Connectivity] Bluetooth HID mouse support (nc)

(nc) indicates the bug no longer has listed status.

3 bugs were resolved "invalid":

• 5515 [Desktop platform] HildonTextView auto-expansion undocumented/odd
• 10932 [Desktop platform] Window manager handles Gtk dialogs incorrectly when they are transient to a GdkWindow
• 10966 [Location] using liblocation makes client app use at least 10% CPU all the time

1 bug was resolved "wontfix":

• 5786 [Connectivity] "Wi-Fi Protected Setup" is not optional

1 bug was resolved "duplicate":

• 10562 [Connectivity] Home network data connection detected as roaming (NL KPN NL TELFORT)

1 bug was resolved "worksforme":

• 10980 [Desktop platform] Invoking dashboard when browser in portrait mode goes to desktop instead

0 bugs were resolved "moved".

Resolved Enhancements

0 enhancements were resolved "fixed".

0 enhancements were resolved "invalid".

1 enhancement was resolved "wontfix":

• 3133 [Desktop platform] Pressing the Enter hardware key in "Save dialog" should go "OK"

0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate".

0 enhancements were resolved "worksforme".

1 enhancement was resolved "moved":

• 10963 [Telephony] Short vibro on start/stop conversation

Confirmed Items

0 bugs were confirmed.

0 enhancements were confirmed.

Reopened Items

1 bug was reopened:

• 9389 [Connectivity] Bluetooth HID mouse support

0 enhancements were reopened.

Unloved Items

10 bugs were needing love:

• 10106 [Development platform] GUI installer does not set vm.vdso_enabled to 0 even if it claims thus
• 9879 [Development platform] Old dpkg in ARM toolchain report bug on localized Maemo-Display-Name fields.
• 10020 [Desktop platform] Switching off while applying theme results in mixture of themes
• 10067 [Data] some large images in folders with multiple ones aren't displayed in thumbnail view
• 10148 [Core] preinit does not find kernel modules
• 10341 [Connectivity] Internet Connections menu doesn't recognise manually configured network
• 10705 [Development platform] dh_shlibdeps fails
• 10916 [Development platform] MADDE's dpkg-buildpackage can't handle paths with spaces well
• 10994 [Desktop platform] duplicate run of hildon-startup-progress at boot
• 10998 [System software] MCE communication bug with DBUS permissions

6 enhancements were needing love:

• 7924 [Packaging Policy] Packager should include filesys usage in description automatically
• 10974 [Desktop platform] Behavior of "long press" on a key should have a standard configuration option
• 9693 [Connectivity] Audible notification of bluetooth connect/disconnect
• 9710 [Synchronization] Enable choice of Access Point in MfE settings for Scheduled Sync
• 10153 [Connectivity] Bluetooth headset VR activation capability not implemented
• 10457 [Synchronization] Provide option to choose synchronisation folders

Keyworded Items

(glossary)

0 bugs were tagged "crash".

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

2 bugs were tagged "moreinfo":

• 10922 [Telephony] In 3G-only mode, N900 often takes ages to reconnect to 3G telephone network after losing signal
• 10993 [Synchronization] Outlook Sync ignores Hermes Pix

0 bugs were tagged "patch".

0 bugs were tagged "performance".

0 bugs were tagged "security".

0 enhancements were tagged "easyfix".

0 enhancements were tagged "moreinfo".

1 enhancement was tagged "patch":

• 3133 [Desktop platform] Pressing the Enter hardware key in "Save dialog" should go "OK"

0 enhancements were tagged "performance".

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