No specific topic set – see the wiki for some ideas.

Bugdays are about hanging out together on IRC, triaging/discussing some reports in maemo.org Bugzilla, and introducing new people into triaging. No technical knowledge needed, no obligations. Step by and say hello to the Bugsquad or become part of it.

Today the GNOME release schedule proposal for 2.31/3.0 was published. Please keep discussion streamlined on desktop-devel mailing list.

It also lists high risk areas and potential showstoppers (please note the word “potential”) as I want to communicate them clearly to users, distributions and the community. Currently I personally don’t expect everything to work out as planned, as manpower is missing in crucial areas. Distributions and the community can help minimizing such potential regressions by providing more developer manpower, or at least help in testing. Please contribute if you can.

Another issue are of course those modules that are defacto unmaintained. Peer reviews could be arranged in such cases.

Wer als deutscher Staatsbürger im Ausland lebt in welchem ein deutscher Personalausweis als Identifikation anerkannt/geduldet wird und wer genauso wie ich kein Interesse daran besitzt, dem deutschen Regime zwei seiner Fingerabdrücke für einen deutschen Reisepass zu geben, der kann sich als Adresse “kein Wohnsitz im Inland” auf seinen Personalausweis eintragen lassen. Wohl am einfachsten in der deutschen Gemeinde in welcher man als letztes gemeldet war (und für die verwirrten Mitarbeiter der Stadtverwaltung am besten zuvor den einschlägigen Paragraphen im jeweiligen Landesgesetz nachschauen), sollte aber auch in jeder anderen deutschen Gemeinde funktionieren.

The Module proposal period for the next GNOME release has started!

If you are a maintainer of a module that you want to propose for official inclusion in GNOME: Do it now! See the wiki for the guidelines.

Just booked a one-way flight to Brussels, not decided yet how and where to go back.

First of all some Nokia-internal changes with regard to Error Management, then maemo.org Bugzilla moving to a new server. Unexpected side effect was data loss. Spent part of last Monday restoring what I still had in my bugmail. Still it leads to confusion and mistrust (“Why was my account deleted?” – “You probably created it in that data loss time frame?” – “Ah.”).

Then we had the Maemo5 PR1.1 release on Thursday (with a nice ChangeLog) and some problems on Saturday and Sunday, hence bugmail (change notifications) was not delivered.

Sharing other thoughts on broader issues that are currently on my mind:

Before writing the very first bug report (maybe even of your life) it’s recommended that reporters take a look at the How-To. Good bug reports save everybody’s time and issues get fixed faster. We should put this information on the first Bugzilla page to avoid frustration on both sides.

Also the number of incoming reports is constantly high, hence I am sometimes short with my comments (as I also have to take a look at the internal comments for public tickets, verify some reported issues in newer internal versions, keep stuff in sync, and other stuff). Depending on cultural backgrounds some of my comments might be misinterpreted as unfriendlyness.

For the high workload Ubuntu has a nice approach called 5 A Day which is asking community members to triage five bug reports a day. I’d be happy with any number though.
On a related note, for some reasons I expect more Nokians to be around in maemo.org Bugzilla after the next feature release (PR1.2) has been published. Looking forward to it.

Another problem is that many normal users don’t understand the difference between a bug report and a forum (I’ve blogged about this before, anyway). That’s predictable if you’ve never seen a bugtracker before, but if everybody wants Nokia to be more present in maemo.org Bugzilla and folks actually reading bugmail and responding, please reduce adding comments on what is helpful and avoid unneeded fullquotes or answering above the quote.
Especially if instructions how to provide further information have been posted already adding just another “I have this problem too” comment is unhelpful and creates bugmail noise in everybody’s inbox. Bug reports with hundreds of comments, mixing up issues with similar outcome but different reasons quickly become unreadable so the same questions or comments get reposted plus subscribed people tend to ignore new comments. Of course this is also a question of providing better information on how to provide logs etc – should spend time on this in the next weeks.

In general of course reading before posting is required, but people are lazy. “If this is RESOLVED FIXED, then why do I still see that issue here?” It’s explained that FIXED does not mean PUBLISHED, but we could consider renaming FIXED after having Bugzilla 3.4 in place, as it confuses many people. Red Hat for example calls an internal fix “RESOLVED ON_QA” in their Bugzilla until the fix is really available for public.

So that’s the reason why I educate people ask people to please “behave”. Sometimes I scare some people or maybe have less friends at the end of the day, sometimes people are fine with what I’m doing.
In any way it’s necessary, I just felt a need to explain my intentions in public after a bit of negative feedback in the last days.

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Röyksopp and The Dø to mention separately, because both albums are just marvelous. Quite unfair to pick just one song here.

Miou Miou – À l’été de la Saint-Martin ‘68 / School of Seven Bells – Connjur / Depeche Mode – Everything counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub remix) / Paul Kalkbrenner – Gebrünn Gebrünn (Berlin Calling Edit) / N.A.S.A. ft. Kanye West, Santogold, Lykke Li – Gifted / Dear Reader – Great white bear / Unkle – Heaven / Dragonette – I go around (Midnight Juggernauts remix) / Black Eyed Peas – I got a feeling / Yarn:moor – It’s blooming / London Elektricity – Just one second / Friendly Fires ft. Au Revoir Simone – Paris (Aeroplane Remix) / Lady GaGa – Pokerface / Metric – Sick muse / Lady Sovereign: So Human / IAMX – Spit It Out (Designer Drugs Remix) / Hell – U can dance / David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland – When love takes over / 2raumwohnung – Wir werden sehen (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix)