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 (

total open items 850 (31)
open bugs 500 (27)

critical/blocker 12 (2)
“easyfix” 0
“moreinfo” 46 (28)
“crash” 9 (4)
“patch” 7
reopened 27 (1)
unconfirmed 142 (22)

open enhancements 350 (4)

“easyfix” 2
“moreinfo” 3 (1)
“patch” 16
reopened 16
unconfirmed 64

Top Tens

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

(4%) 10613 [Chat & Call & SMS] screen glitches on incoming call (+1 this week)
(4%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (+1 this week)
(4%) 6009 [Utilities] “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (+1 this week)
(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)
(3%) 6907 [Desktop Widgets] Media Player widget suddenly starts music after Phone call ends (+1 this week)
(2%) 7909 [Desktop Widgets] 3rd party applets cause Media Player Widget not to work (needs to be readded) (+1 this week)
(2%) 10312 [Chat & Call & SMS] Video calls with Skype does not work (+1 this week)
(2%) 5670 [Chat & Call & SMS] Generic “Unable to connect to one or more accounts” message unhelpful (+1 this week)
(2%) 10551 [Settings and Maintenance] Slow unresponsive Application Manager (+1 this week)
(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:

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

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Ten hottest open bugs:

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

Ten hottest open enhancements:

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

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

Ten oldest open enhancements:

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

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