Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.50
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2010-12-06 through 2010-12-12


As of 2010-12-13 Maemo Official Applications contains:

• total items: 3820 (+5 this week)
  • total open items: 881 (+1 this week)
  • open bugs: 527 (+2 this week)
    • critical/blocker: 14
    • "easyfix": 0
    • "moreinfo": 74
    • "crash": 13
    • "patch": 7
    • reopened: 28 (+4 this week)
    • unconfirmed: 164
  • open enhancements: 354 (-1 this week)
    • "easyfix": 2
    • "moreinfo": 4
    • "patch": 16
    • reopened: 16 (+2 this week)
    • unconfirmed: 64

Top Tens
Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (13%) 3888 [Email] IMAP-IDLE not working
2. (3%) 10613 [Chat & Call & SMS] screen glitches on incoming call
3. (3%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post)
4. (3%) 6009 [Utilities] "Enter" key sends wrong keycode to console applications
5. (3%) 3762 [Email] Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX)
6. (2%) 6907 [Desktop Widgets] Media Player widget suddenly starts music after Phone call ends
7. (2%) 7909 [Desktop Widgets] 3rd party applets cause Media Player Widget not to work (needs to be readded)
8. (2%) 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work
9. (2%) 5670 [Chat & Call & SMS] Generic "Unable to connect to one or more accounts" message unhelpful
10. (2%) 10551 [Settings and Maintenance] Slow unresponsive Application Manager

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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

1. (5%) 1695 [Browser] Browser: Provide "open link in background"
2. (4%) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (3%) 2796 [Media player] Media player should play audio tracks continuously (gapless) (+1 this week)
4. (3%) 2557 [Email] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server (-1 this week)
5. (3%) 5294 [Calendar] Support for modifying/deleting a single occurrence of repeating event
6. (3%) 7740 [Chat & Call & SMS] Missing call duration for each call in Phone UI
7. (2%) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
8. (2%) 4192 [Email] GPG/PGP support
9. (2%) 5327 [Utilities] Reintroduce shortcut configuration into Maemo5 XTerm
10. (2%) 5345 [Chat & Call & SMS] Enable or disable IM/VoIP accounts based on connection

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Ten hottest open bugs:

1. 10418 [Chat & Call & SMS] Conversations and Call Log remain empty after 10.2010.19-1.003
2. 6933 [Calendar] Alarm times are shown wrong
3. 7275 [Sharing] Flickr sharing authentication (almost) didn't work
4. 7499 [Settings and Maintenance] After Restore, permissions in /home/user are much to permissive (rwxrwxrwx)
5. 7138 [Email] Email body text replaced with [?] (+2 this week)
6. 8220 [Chat & Call & SMS] IM service defined screen name always overrides N900 assigned screen name (-1 this week)
7. 7827 [Email] Email accounts (seemingly) get connected automatically when not requested (security issue) (-1 this week)
8. 5580 [RSS feed reader] Loading page from RSS item results in different rendering in Browser (new this week)
9. 8262 [Chat & Call & SMS] SMS to a contact with slashes '/' in phone number disappear (new this week)
10. 6381 [Chat & Call & SMS] Search (SMS) fails to recognize same contact with two numbers (new this week)

Ten hottest open enhancements:

1. 1563 [Settings and Maintenance] Application installer to send feedback to the providing site if install fails (+4 this week)
2. 7125 [Calendar] Ability to Search/Sort Notes (+1 this week)
3. 8799 [Media player] Shuffle all songs always starts play from the first song in the playlist (+6 this week)
4. 5321 [Chat & Call & SMS] Annoying "connection lost/established" banners (+3 this week)
5. 6466 [Email] Unable to delete prepared email without moving to Drafts folder first (new this week)
6. 5477 [Contacts] contacts search should include nicknames (new this week)
7. 2779 [Email] Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption (new this week)
8. 6621 [Email] Add option to disable Email delete confirmation dialog (-7 this week)
9. 2557 [Email] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server (-7 this week)
10. 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio (-6 this week)

Ten oldest open bugs (unchanged for 16 weeks):

1. (1437 days) 935 [RSS feed reader] RSS reader misbehavior on HTTP redirects (RFC 2616 violation)
2. (1368 days) 1142 [RSS feed reader] Impossible to add authenticated RSS feeds (username & password)
3. (1212 days) 1860 [Chat & Call & SMS] Won't pass through VPN
4. (1147 days) 2152 [Browser] Documentation on how to build MicroB is not correct
5. (1068 days) 2745 [Email] Space not allowed in username popup (which is not true)
6. (1021 days) 2987 [Email] Does not always mark e-mails as read (dovecot/cyrus/google IMAP server)
7. (1010 days) 3014 [Browser] File chooser should remember last directory
8. (955 days) 3124 [Email] Incorrect displaying of format=flowed paragraphs
9. (891 days) 3402 [Media player] "Use proxy" checkbox unchecked not honored
10. (825 days) 3690 [Email] Sent note attachments use non-existing MIME type "text/note"

Ten oldest open enhancements:

1. (1690 days) 463 [Settings and Maintenance] Date format should be user defined
2. (1639 days) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (1638 days) 604 [Utilities] Renaming files by changing only case should be allowed
4. (1421 days) 960 [Chat & Call & SMS] specify socks proxy for Google Talk (to work behind firewall)
5. (1380 days) 1117 [Browser] xml to html xslt needs to handle opml files
6. (1380 days) 1118 [Contacts] Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP
7. (1377 days) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
8. (1333 days) 1228 [Media player] Fast forward or rewind media files
9. (1330 days) 1236 [Media player] Mediaplayer should stop playing audio after a custom period of time.
10. (1328 days) 1266 [Settings and Maintenance] Add status bar keyboard indicator for external keyboard language

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.50 (continued)

New Items
4 bugs were opened:

• 11665 [Media player] BT transfered mp3 file starts playback and erases playlist
• 11667 [Email] Modest IMAP with zimbra 6.0.9 bug
• 11668 [Media player] WAV files are not open-able in Media Player when the link is clicked from MicroB
• 11669 [Calendar] Alarm for recurrent events cannot be trusted

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

1 enhancement was opened:

• 11681 [Media player] fm radio

Resolved Bugs
0 bugs were resolved "fixed".

1 bug was resolved "invalid":

• 11428 [Email] Imap sync broken after update of zimbra server from 5.X to 6.08

5 bugs were resolved "wontfix":

• 6933 [Calendar] Alarm times are shown wrong (nc)
• 8048 [Calendar] Multi day events are not readable in week view (nc)
• 8989 [Chat & Call & SMS] number -> name decoding for sms should only be decoded from phone number fields of contacts (nc)
• 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work (nc)
• 10675 [Chat & Call & SMS] Skype breaks down (nc)

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

0 bugs were resolved "duplicate".

1 bug was resolved "worksforme":

• 11612 [Email] E-mail signature max width only 31 characters

0 bugs were resolved "moved".


Resolved Enhancements
0 enhancements were resolved "fixed".

1 enhancement was resolved "invalid":

• 11681 [Media player] fm radio

3 enhancements were resolved "wontfix":

• 6850 [Contacts] Contacts does not allow to show only non-IM contacts (nc)
• 6871 [Media player] Next song should be prefetched when UPNP is used as source (nc)
• 8743 [Chat & Call & SMS] No way to get contact informations from IM system

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

0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate".

0 enhancements were resolved "worksforme".

0 enhancements were resolved "moved".


Confirmed Items
0 bugs were confirmed.

0 enhancements were confirmed.


Reopened Items
4 bugs were reopened:

• 6933 [Calendar] Alarm times are shown wrong
• 8048 [Calendar] Multi day events are not readable in week view
• 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work
• 10675 [Chat & Call & SMS] Skype breaks down

2 enhancements were reopened:

• 6850 [Contacts] Contacts does not allow to show only non-IM contacts
• 6871 [Media player] Next song should be prefetched when UPNP is used as source

Unloved Items
7 bugs were needing love:

• 9591 [RSS feed reader] Distinguish read and not-read articles somehow
• 11492 [Media player] Video playback starts from the beginning after resuming playback at the end of incoming call.
• 11568 [Email] Two error messages open at the same time -> cannot close either of them
• 11639 [Contacts] birthday-less contacts have a birthday appearing in calendar on nov 30
• 11667 [Email] Modest IMAP with zimbra 6.0.9 bug
• 10397 [Chat & Call & SMS] N900 Skype client stops showing Call on hold, Call Activated messages when the far end PC skype client performs multiple hold/resumes
• 11008 [Chat & Call & SMS] Deleting a conversation jumps to unexpected view in the list.

10 enhancements were needing love:

• 8636 [Email] Proposal: Connection specific POP3/IMAP servers
• 8673 [Email] Attachments in mails stored in Drafts cannot be opened or saved locally.
• 8796 [Sharing] Notification of shared photos to service
• 8819 [Media player] Add a view to music player to group music by year
• 9043 [Media player] media player has no 'repeat one track' function
• 9633 [Contacts] Delete fields dialogue doesn't mention field name when only one field selected
• 9739 [Contacts] Cannot duplicate a contact
• 10186 [Media player] No way to navigate from a currently playing song to its containing album.
• 9980 [Chat & Call & SMS] call prefix on SIP calls (enhancement)
• 10102 [Chat & Call & SMS] SIP transfer call functionality

Keyworded Items (glossary)
0 bugs were tagged "crash".

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

1 bug was tagged "moreinfo":

• 11665 [Media player] BT transfered mp3 file starts playback and erases playlist

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".

0 enhancements were tagged "patch".

0 enhancements were tagged "performance".



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Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.51
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2010-12-13 through 2010-12-19

Next week's edition of the Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar will be the last. Activity within the classification has slowed to a trickle, and bug comments no longer indicate changes in internal versions of components. It appears the Maemo Official Applications reports have run their course. Other Bug Jars will continue.

As of 2010-12-20 Maemo Official Applications contains:

• total items: 3828 (+8 this week)
  • total open items: 850 (-31 this week)
  • open bugs: 500 (-27 this week)
    • critical/blocker: 12 (-2 this week)
    • "easyfix": 0
    • "moreinfo": 46 (-28 this week)
    • "crash": 9 (-4 this week)
    • "patch": 7
    • reopened: 27 (-1 this week)
    • unconfirmed: 142 (-22 this week)
  • open enhancements: 350 (-4 this week)
    • "easyfix": 2
    • "moreinfo": 3 (-1 this week)
    • "patch": 16
    • reopened: 16
    • unconfirmed: 64

Top Tens
Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (4%) 10613 [Chat & Call & SMS] screen glitches on incoming call (+1 this week)
2. (4%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (+1 this week)
3. (4%) 6009 [Utilities] "Enter" key sends wrong keycode to console applications (+1 this week)
4. (3%) 3762 [Email] Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX) (+1 this week)
5. (3%) 6907 [Desktop Widgets] Media Player widget suddenly starts music after Phone call ends (+1 this week)
6. (2%) 7909 [Desktop Widgets] 3rd party applets cause Media Player Widget not to work (needs to be readded) (+1 this week)
7. (2%) 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work (+1 this week)
8. (2%) 5670 [Chat & Call & SMS] Generic "Unable to connect to one or more accounts" message unhelpful (+1 this week)
9. (2%) 10551 [Settings and Maintenance] Slow unresponsive Application Manager (+1 this week)
10. (2%) 9594 [Map] Data transfer even when not using network positioning (new this week)

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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

1. (5%) 1695 [Browser] Browser: Provide "open link in background"
2. (4%) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (3%) 2796 [Media player] Media player should play audio tracks continuously (gapless)
4. (3%) 2557 [Email] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
5. (3%) 5294 [Calendar] Support for modifying/deleting a single occurrence of repeating event
6. (3%) 7740 [Chat & Call & SMS] Missing call duration for each call in Phone UI
7. (2%) 4192 [Email] GPG/PGP support (+1 this week)
8. (2%) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio (-1 this week)
9. (2%) 5327 [Utilities] Reintroduce shortcut configuration into Maemo5 XTerm
10. (2%) 5345 [Chat & Call & SMS] Enable or disable IM/VoIP accounts based on connection

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Ten hottest open bugs:

1. 10418 [Chat & Call & SMS] Conversations and Call Log remain empty after 10.2010.19-1.003
2. 6933 [Calendar] Alarm times are shown wrong
3. 7275 [Sharing] Flickr sharing authentication (almost) didn't work
4. 7827 [Email] Email accounts (seemingly) get connected automatically when not requested (security issue) (+3 this week)
5. 7138 [Email] Email body text replaced with [?]
6. 8220 [Chat & Call & SMS] IM service defined screen name always overrides N900 assigned screen name
7. 7499 [Settings and Maintenance] After Restore, permissions in /home/user are much to permissive (rwxrwxrwx) (-3 this week)
8. 6584 [Images and Camera] GPS geotagged pictures truncate precision of GPS reading (0 decimal places) (new this week)
9. 3402 [Media player] "Use proxy" checkbox unchecked not honored (new this week)
10. 6381 [Chat & Call & SMS] Search (SMS) fails to recognize same contact with two numbers

Ten hottest open enhancements:

1. 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio (+9 this week)
2. 7125 [Calendar] Ability to Search/Sort Notes
3. 6466 [Email] Unable to delete prepared email without moving to Drafts folder first (+2 this week)
4. 2779 [Email] Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption (+3 this week)
5. 2557 [Email] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server (+4 this week)
6. 5540 [Calendar] Give user better idea of how many events are not visible in weekly view. (new this week)
7. 6621 [Email] Add option to disable Email delete confirmation dialog (+1 this week)
8. 1563 [Settings and Maintenance] Application installer to send feedback to the providing site if install fails (-7 this week)
9. 3089 [Utilities] Add Contact and/or Map link to alarm (new this week)
10. 8799 [Media player] Shuffle all songs always starts play from the first song in the playlist (-7 this week)

Ten oldest open bugs (unchanged for 17 weeks):

1. (1444 days) 935 [RSS feed reader] RSS reader misbehavior on HTTP redirects (RFC 2616 violation)
2. (1375 days) 1142 [RSS feed reader] Impossible to add authenticated RSS feeds (username & password)
3. (1219 days) 1860 [Chat & Call & SMS] Won't pass through VPN
4. (1154 days) 2152 [Browser] Documentation on how to build MicroB is not correct
5. (1075 days) 2745 [Email] Space not allowed in username popup (which is not true)
6. (1028 days) 2987 [Email] Does not always mark e-mails as read (dovecot/cyrus/google IMAP server)
7. (1017 days) 3014 [Browser] File chooser should remember last directory
8. (962 days) 3124 [Email] Incorrect displaying of format=flowed paragraphs
9. (898 days) 3402 [Media player] "Use proxy" checkbox unchecked not honored
10. (832 days) 3690 [Email] Sent note attachments use non-existing MIME type "text/note"

Ten oldest open enhancements:

1. (1697 days) 463 [Settings and Maintenance] Date format should be user defined
2. (1646 days) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (1645 days) 604 [Utilities] Renaming files by changing only case should be allowed
4. (1428 days) 960 [Chat & Call & SMS] specify socks proxy for Google Talk (to work behind firewall)
5. (1387 days) 1117 [Browser] xml to html xslt needs to handle opml files
6. (1387 days) 1118 [Contacts] Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP
7. (1384 days) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
8. (1340 days) 1228 [Media player] Fast forward or rewind media files
9. (1337 days) 1236 [Media player] Mediaplayer should stop playing audio after a custom period of time.
10. (1335 days) 1266 [Settings and Maintenance] Add status bar keyboard indicator for external keyboard language

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.51 (continued)

New Items
4 bugs were opened:

• 11687 [Contacts] problems importing contacts to the hands free of my car
• 11692 [Media player] Media player does not rewind FLAC-files
• 11700 [Email] "Load Images" button not available after clicking previous/next button from a mail without images
• 11701 [Desktop Widgets] most of the times my media player widget do not work with play button. so i should close this widget an reopen it to start working!!!

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

3 enhancements were opened:

• 11686 [Settings and Maintenance] app manager refreshes package list every time after installing, making it tediously hard to install more than one app
• 11690 [Settings and Maintenance] onscreen keyboard
• 11694 [Media player] Cannot play a whole Christmas compilation CD with various artists

Resolved Bugs
1 bug was resolved "fixed":

• 3888 [Email] IMAP-IDLE not working (FiH)

(FiH) indicates the bug is Fixed in Harmattan.

6 bugs were resolved "invalid":

• 10244 [Email] unable to select server inbox. restart application and try again
• 10480 [Media player] Media Player loses connection to Media Tomb
• 11083 [Contacts] Sending Business card from N900 / saving Business card by N97
• 11212 [Chat & Call & SMS] Incoming Lotus Sametime messages crash Conversations
• 11267 [Calendar] Month view doesn't show current month by default (started from Desktop widget)
• 11484 [RSS feed reader] RSS Reader not loading

4 bugs were resolved "wontfix":

• 6274 [Desktop Widgets] Sharing pictures on Facebook gives "Transfer error"
• 7260 [Contacts] Can't sync contacts between two N900s: Other N900 not listed.
• 10035 [Contacts] rearranging of contacts phone numbers not possible
• 11208 [Images and Camera] Interaction between camera after cellular call is not smooth

4 bugs were resolved "duplicate":

• 11483 [Desktop Widgets] Media player widget - Play button doesn't work anymore
• 11687 [Contacts] problems importing contacts to the hands free of my car
• 11692 [Media player] Media player does not rewind FLAC-files
• 11701 [Desktop Widgets] most of the times my media player widget do not work with play button. so i should close this widget an reopen it to start working!!!

17 bugs were resolved "worksforme":

• 6963 [Media player] Some DivX/XviD videos aren't rendered correctly
• 7697 [Media player] Media Player UI stays in connecting state when resuming stream playback with WLAN disconnected.
• 7956 [Browser] web browser showing empty page (+high cpu usage by browserd)
• 8942 [Desktop Widgets] Repeated events are not listed on the Calendar Widget
• 9344 [Contacts] In PhoneUI & adding new contact to Desktop, osso-addressbook load very slow with many contacts
• 9556 [Chat & Call & SMS] Specific class 0 SMS messages cause losing network connection
• 9787 [Browser] Browser crashed when moving away from the page when playing youtube video from www.andhrawatch.com
• 10220 [Email] Exchange 2003: Blank mail with missing attachment when no message body is included
• 10395 [Chat & Call & SMS] Tapping on skype contact in call list shows Skype IM in offline mode
• 10785 [Utilities] Second alarm not activated when first alarm is ignored
• 10819 [Settings and Maintenance] Frequent App Manager can cause resets
• 10984 [Email] Check Names brings up Voicemail Contact
• 11055 [Browser] facebook.com displayed incorrectly
• 11203 [Media player] Media player unable to play H.264 encoded movies without crashing.
• 11276 [Calendar] birthday shown one day earlier for march 2010
• 11369 [Utilities] Under heavy load Alarm sound keeps playing if you "click" stop too fast/early
• 11648 [Images and Camera] [kernel-power] Camera application crashes immediately after the start (after opening the cover)

0 bugs were resolved "moved".


Resolved Enhancements
2 enhancements were resolved "fixed":

• 5402 [Images and Camera] Image Viewer missing rubber-banding (bounce) effect (FiH)
• 5409 [Chat & Call & SMS] Cannot send empty SMS (FiH)

(FiH) indicates the enhancement is Fixed in Harmattan.

2 enhancements were resolved "invalid":

• 11690 [Settings and Maintenance] onscreen keyboard
• 11694 [Media player] Cannot play a whole Christmas compilation CD with various artists

2 enhancements were resolved "wontfix":

• 5541 [Calendar] Granularise 'calendar' visibility in different views.
• 5681 [Chat & Call & SMS] Add setting to allow user-definable character count limits

1 enhancement was resolved "duplicate":

• 11694 [Media player] Cannot play a whole Christmas compilation CD with various artists (nc)

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

1 enhancement was resolved "worksforme":

• 11088 [Contacts] Can't store date fields other than Birthday for a contact

0 enhancements were resolved "moved".


Confirmed Items
2 bugs were confirmed:

• 10878 [Media player] Songs randomly stop playing in media player.
• 11663 [Chat & Call & SMS] DTMF tones are not sent through Skype

0 enhancements were confirmed.


Reopened Items
0 bugs were reopened.

0 enhancements were reopened.


Unloved Items
7 bugs were needing love:

• 9591 [RSS feed reader] Distinguish read and not-read articles somehow
• 11492 [Media player] Video playback starts from the beginning after resuming playback at the end of incoming call.
• 11568 [Email] Two error messages open at the same time -> cannot close either of them
• 11639 [Contacts] birthday-less contacts have a birthday appearing in calendar on nov 30
• 11667 [Email] Modest IMAP with zimbra 6.0.9 bug
• 10397 [Chat & Call & SMS] N900 Skype client stops showing Call on hold, Call Activated messages when the far end PC skype client performs multiple hold/resumes
• 11008 [Chat & Call & SMS] Deleting a conversation jumps to unexpected view in the list.

10 enhancements were needing love:

• 8636 [Email] Proposal: Connection specific POP3/IMAP servers
• 8673 [Email] Attachments in mails stored in Drafts cannot be opened or saved locally.
• 8796 [Sharing] Notification of shared photos to service
• 8819 [Media player] Add a view to music player to group music by year
• 9043 [Media player] media player has no 'repeat one track' function
• 9633 [Contacts] Delete fields dialogue doesn't mention field name when only one field selected
• 9739 [Contacts] Cannot duplicate a contact
• 10186 [Media player] No way to navigate from a currently playing song to its containing album.
• 9980 [Chat & Call & SMS] call prefix on SIP calls (enhancement)
• 10102 [Chat & Call & SMS] SIP transfer call functionality

Keyworded Items (glossary)
0 bugs were tagged "crash".

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

2 bugs were tagged "moreinfo":

• 11687 [Contacts] problems importing contacts to the hands free of my car
• 11692 [Media player] Media player does not rewind FLAC-files

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".

0 enhancements were tagged "patch".

0 enhancements were tagged "performance".



This summary is also posted to the Maemo developers' list and the maemo.org Bug Jar blog.

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.52
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2010-12-20 through 2010-12-26

This is the final edition of the Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar. Other Bug Jars will continue.

As of 2010-12-27 Maemo Official Applications contains:

• total items: 3832 (+4 this week)
  • total open items: 853 (+3 this week)
  • open bugs: 503 (+3 this week)
    • critical/blocker: 12
    • "easyfix": 0
    • "moreinfo": 46
    • "crash": 9
    • "patch": 7
    • reopened: 27
    • unconfirmed: 142
  • open enhancements: 350
    • "easyfix": 2
    • "moreinfo": 3
    • "patch": 16
    • reopened: 16
    • unconfirmed: 64

Top Tens
Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (4%) 10613 [Chat & Call & SMS] screen glitches on incoming call
2. (4%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post)
3. (4%) 6009 [Utilities] "Enter" key sends wrong keycode to console applications
4. (3%) 3762 [Email] Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX)
5. (3%) 6907 [Desktop Widgets] Media Player widget suddenly starts music after Phone call ends
6. (2%) 7909 [Desktop Widgets] 3rd party applets cause Media Player Widget not to work (needs to be readded)
7. (2%) 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work
8. (2%) 5670 [Chat & Call & SMS] Generic "Unable to connect to one or more accounts" message unhelpful
9. (2%) 10551 [Settings and Maintenance] Slow unresponsive Application Manager
10. (2%) 9594 [Map] Data transfer even when not using network positioning

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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

1. (5%) 1695 [Browser] Browser: Provide "open link in background"
2. (4%) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (3%) 2796 [Media player] Media player should play audio tracks continuously (gapless)
4. (3%) 2557 [Email] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
5. (3%) 5294 [Calendar] Support for modifying/deleting a single occurrence of repeating event
6. (3%) 7740 [Chat & Call & SMS] Missing call duration for each call in Phone UI
7. (2%) 4192 [Email] GPG/PGP support
8. (2%) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
9. (2%) 5327 [Utilities] Reintroduce shortcut configuration into Maemo5 XTerm
10. (2%) 5345 [Chat & Call & SMS] Enable or disable IM/VoIP accounts based on connection

Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.

Ten hottest open bugs:

1. 10418 [Chat & Call & SMS] Conversations and Call Log remain empty after 10.2010.19-1.003
2. 6933 [Calendar] Alarm times are shown wrong
3. 7275 [Sharing] Flickr sharing authentication (almost) didn't work
4. 7827 [Email] Email accounts (seemingly) get connected automatically when not requested (security issue)
5. 7499 [Settings and Maintenance] After Restore, permissions in /home/user are much to permissive (rwxrwxrwx) (+2 this week)
6. 7138 [Email] Email body text replaced with [?] (-1 this week)
7. 8220 [Chat & Call & SMS] IM service defined screen name always overrides N900 assigned screen name (-1 this week)
8. 6757 [Settings and Maintenance] localised description field not taken into account (new this week)
9. 6584 [Images and Camera] GPS geotagged pictures truncate precision of GPS reading (0 decimal places) (-1 this week)
10. 6443 [Map] Non-Latin alphabet used (for Location status) when device settings are English (new this week)

Ten hottest open enhancements:

1. 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
2. 1563 [Settings and Maintenance] Application installer to send feedback to the providing site if install fails (+6 this week)
3. 3089 [Utilities] Add Contact and/or Map link to alarm (+6 this week)
4. 5321 [Chat & Call & SMS] Annoying "connection lost/established" banners (new this week)
5. 6466 [Email] Unable to delete prepared email without moving to Drafts folder first (-2 this week)
6. 5477 [Contacts] contacts search should include nicknames (new this week)
7. 463 [Settings and Maintenance] Date format should be user defined (new this week)
8. 6621 [Email] Add option to disable Email delete confirmation dialog (-1 this week)
9. 2317 [Chat & Call & SMS] Chat doesn't show <composing> and <inactive> for chatting contact (new this week)
10. 2779 [Email] Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption (-6 this week)

Ten oldest open bugs (unchanged for 18 weeks):

1. (1451 days) 935 [RSS feed reader] RSS reader misbehavior on HTTP redirects (RFC 2616 violation)
2. (1382 days) 1142 [RSS feed reader] Impossible to add authenticated RSS feeds (username & password)
3. (1226 days) 1860 [Chat & Call & SMS] Won't pass through VPN
4. (1161 days) 2152 [Browser] Documentation on how to build MicroB is not correct
5. (1082 days) 2745 [Email] Space not allowed in username popup (which is not true)
6. (1035 days) 2987 [Email] Does not always mark e-mails as read (dovecot/cyrus/google IMAP server)
7. (1024 days) 3014 [Browser] File chooser should remember last directory
8. (969 days) 3124 [Email] Incorrect displaying of format=flowed paragraphs
9. (905 days) 3402 [Media player] "Use proxy" checkbox unchecked not honored
10. (839 days) 3690 [Email] Sent note attachments use non-existing MIME type "text/note"

Ten oldest open enhancements:

1. (1704 days) 463 [Settings and Maintenance] Date format should be user defined
2. (1653 days) 601 [Settings and Maintenance] should offer remove/install multiple packages at once
3. (1652 days) 604 [Utilities] Renaming files by changing only case should be allowed
4. (1435 days) 960 [Chat & Call & SMS] specify socks proxy for Google Talk (to work behind firewall)
5. (1394 days) 1117 [Browser] xml to html xslt needs to handle opml files
6. (1394 days) 1118 [Contacts] Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP
7. (1391 days) 1129 [Media player] Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close for audio
8. (1347 days) 1228 [Media player] Fast forward or rewind media files
9. (1344 days) 1236 [Media player] Mediaplayer should stop playing audio after a custom period of time.
10. (1342 days) 1266 [Settings and Maintenance] Add status bar keyboard indicator for external keyboard language

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.52 (continued)

New Items
4 bugs were opened:

• 11717 [Media player] Unpause dbus command does not turn off touchscreen sounds
• 11723 [Email] 12 hour clock appears as 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM (and similar) in Hours dialog
• 11724 [Email] add mailbox shouldn't trigger 5 successive attempts to get a network
• 11727 [Media player] Media Player not able to seek in DLNA streams

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

0 enhancements were opened.


Resolved Bugs
0 bugs were resolved "fixed".

0 bugs were resolved "invalid".

0 bugs were resolved "wontfix".

1 bug was resolved "duplicate":

• 11667 [Email] Modest IMAP with zimbra 6.0.9 bug

0 bugs were resolved "worksforme".

0 bugs were resolved "moved".


Resolved Enhancements
0 enhancements were resolved "fixed".

0 enhancements were resolved "invalid".

0 enhancements were resolved "wontfix".

0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate".

0 enhancements were resolved "worksforme".

0 enhancements were resolved "moved".


Confirmed Items
1 bug was confirmed:

• 9591 [RSS feed reader] Distinguish read and not-read articles somehow

0 enhancements were confirmed.


Reopened Items
0 bugs were reopened.

0 enhancements were reopened.


Unloved Items
7 bugs were needing love:

• 11492 [Media player] Video playback starts from the beginning after resuming playback at the end of incoming call.
• 11568 [Email] Two error messages open at the same time -> cannot close either of them
• 11639 [Contacts] birthday-less contacts have a birthday appearing in calendar on nov 30
• 11717 [Media player] Unpause dbus command does not turn off touchscreen sounds
• 11727 [Media player] Media Player not able to seek in DLNA streams
• 10397 [Chat & Call & SMS] N900 Skype client stops showing Call on hold, Call Activated messages when the far end PC skype client performs multiple hold/resumes
• 11008 [Chat & Call & SMS] Deleting a conversation jumps to unexpected view in the list.

10 enhancements were needing love:

• 8636 [Email] Proposal: Connection specific POP3/IMAP servers
• 8673 [Email] Attachments in mails stored in Drafts cannot be opened or saved locally.
• 8796 [Sharing] Notification of shared photos to service
• 8819 [Media player] Add a view to music player to group music by year
• 9043 [Media player] media player has no 'repeat one track' function
• 9633 [Contacts] Delete fields dialogue doesn't mention field name when only one field selected
• 9739 [Contacts] Cannot duplicate a contact
• 10186 [Media player] No way to navigate from a currently playing song to its containing album.
• 9980 [Chat & Call & SMS] call prefix on SIP calls (enhancement)
• 10102 [Chat & Call & SMS] SIP transfer call functionality

Keyworded Items (glossary)
0 bugs were tagged "crash".

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

0 bugs were tagged "moreinfo".

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".

0 enhancements were tagged "patch".

0 enhancements were tagged "performance".



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