Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.45
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-11-02 through 2009-11-08


As of 2009-11-09 Maemo Official Applications contains 1688 items (+30 this week),
including 403 open issues (no change this week):

• 179 open bugs (-3 this week)
  • 5 critical/blocker (+1 this week)
  • 3 "easyfix" (no change this week)
  • 33 "moreinfo" (+2 this week)
  • 1 "crash" (no change this week)
  • 9 "patch" (-3 this week)
  • 15 reopened (+2 this week)
  • 39 unconfirmed (+2 this week)
• 224 open enhancements (+3 this week)
  • 2 "easyfix" (no change this week)
  • 3 "moreinfo" (-1 this week)
  • 12 "patch" (no change this week)
  • 8 reopened (no change this week)
  • 19 unconfirmed (+1 this week)

Top Tens
Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (14%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8x0)
2. (8%) 5450 Installing many packages at a time via App Manager exhausts rootfs space
3. (5%) 1112 Recurrent alarms do not work reliably
4. (4%) 5824 Maximum number of pseudo terminals too low (4) (new this week)
5. (4%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (-1 this week)
6. (3%) 3762 Performance is unusable on INBOX with large number of messages (+3 this week)
7. (3%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (-2 this week)
8. (3%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (-2 this week)
9. (3%) 1860 Won't pass through VPN (-2 this week)
10. (3%) 2987 Does not always mark e-mails as read (dovecot/cyrus/google IMAP server) (-2 this week)

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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

1. (11%) 5300 Support sending files via Bluetooth in file manager
2. (5%) 5357 Does not accept GSM (USSD) Codes starting with *# (+1 this week)
3. (5%) 1129 Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio (-1 this week)
4. (5%) 5356 Assign a ring tone and ring volume on a per-contact level
5. (3%) 2758 Setting a device name should set also the hostname
6. (2%) 761 Please add support for 'fit visible' option to PDF reader
7. (2%) 1235 Please consider open-sourcing the media player (+1 this week)
8. (2%) 1282 List new applications in Application Manager (-1 this week)
9. (2%) 2710 Don't show disclaimers unnecesarily when installing/updating software
10. (2%) 3929 Requesting integration of some community supplied XTerm enhancements

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Ten hottest open bugs:

1. 5353 Phone app crashed as call ending
2. 1112 Recurrent alarms do not work reliably
3. 5450 Installing many packages at a time via App Manager exhausts rootfs space (new this week)
4. 5503 Failed outgoing mails when using Nokia Messaging and Exchange (-1 this week)
5. 6070 gst-launch problem (new this week)
6. 5385 Check available diskspace BEFORE starting the installation (-2 this week)
7. 5855 net-eal doesn't proxy GLists which means the nsIPromptService.select method will crash (-2 this week)
8. 3675 backup will loop nearly infinitely for directories containing pairs of symlinks that do not point to descendants because backup is following them (-2 this week)
9. 4737 contacts can nuke the whole roster plus leave it screwed (-2 this week)
10. 3809 Typing occasionally slows to a crawl, lags input (-2 this week)

Ten hottest open enhancements:

1. 1563 Application installer to send feedback to the providing site if install fails
2. 2758 Setting a device name should set also the hostname
3. 5109 Deleting email should be more evident...
4. 960 specify socks proxy for Google Talk (to work behind firewall)
5. 1129 Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
6. 1235 Please consider open-sourcing the media player
7. 2317 Chat doesn't show <composing> and <inactive> for chatting contact
8. 2779 Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption
9. 3089 Add Contact and/or Map link to alarm
10. 3279 Streamlining user access to the Extras repository

Ten oldest open bugs:

1. 304 Automatic proxy configuration URL not obeyed by RSS feed reader
2. 935 RSS reader misbehavior on HTTP redirects (RFC 2616 violation)
3. 1112 Recurrent alarms do not work reliably
4. 1142 Impossible to add authenticated RSS feeds (username & password)
5. 1800 tapping browser rss icon lists two RSS feeds, one from an iframe
6. 1801 tapping browser rss icon should list ATOM feed, not just RSS
7. 1860 Won't pass through VPN
8. 2150 PDF Reader doesn't support internal document hyperlinks
9. 2152 Documentation on how to build MicroB is not correct
10. 2223 Changing device name impossible when in offline mode or bluetooth off

Ten oldest open enhancements:

1. 339 Browser able to access localhost without Internet connectivity
2. 601 should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. 604 Renaming files by changing only case should be allowed
4. 718 Supporting Jabber through proxy
5. 761 Please add support for 'fit visible' option to PDF reader
6. 960 specify socks proxy for Google Talk (to work behind firewall)
7. 972 Manage all accounts (Email etc) in Control Panel's Account settings
8. 1117 xml to html xslt needs to handle opml files
9. 1118 Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP
10. 1129 Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio

New Items
24 bugs were opened:

• 5994 Incoming SMS show wrong time
• 5998 Skype does not allow entering DTMF tones
• 6002 Media player automatically plays next internet radio stream on failure
• 6009 "Enter" key sends wrong keycode to console applications
• 6010 Browser does not allow Google Maps to scroll
• 6014 apt-get upgrade can result in non-bootable device
• 6019 Impossible to install Packages from Memory Card : doc update ?
• 6021 Some MSN contacts don't show button to open MSN IM window
• 6027 Only require libmodest-dbus-client in maemo platform
• 6029 UPnP shares become unavailable when automatically reconnecting to WiFi
• 6044 IMEI number not shown with *#06#
• 6045 ENTER key stops working in XTerm
• 6048 Volume level keys of the device don't control volume in list of mail accounts and list of folders inside of an account
• 6050 Fax numbers not allowed
• 6052 Internal error when merging contacts with pics
• 6053 Video recording: Zooming is recorded via mic
• 6054 skype time is wrong
• 6060 Application manager finishing an installation in background blocks keyboard input in Terminal
• 6064 Can't add SMS content as a New Contact (only SMS sender)
• 6065 Location addresses within SMS should be links to either the Maps app or Google Maps
• 6066 Sticky shift, Fn, and Sym keys do not work for Flash text input fields
• 6067 Media player becomes unusable if a dialog is open when opening a stream link from browser
• 6070 gst-launch problem
• 6083 Contacts - to less fields - allow to create own based on existing fields (only allow to rename)

Of these, 1 was a critical/blocker:

• 6014 apt-get upgrade can result in non-bootable device