Category Archives: computer

Anything that has to do with machines, internet, open source and technology.

maemo.org: SNAFU ;-)

Posted on 2010-01-18 by aklapper

The last two weeks were a bit… stressful. 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 … Continue reading →

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2009 Bugzilla statistics for maemo.org and GNOME

Posted on 2010-01-01 by aklapper

This morning my calendar told me there’s a new year available, so I created some quick & dirty statistics for my favorite bug databases: maemo.org Bugzilla 2009 stats GNOME Bugzilla 2009 stats

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GNOME 3 platform cleanup

Posted on 2009-12-21 by aklapper

Long time no update on the Cleanup part of GNOME 3, hence if somebody wants to spend the Christmas days with hacking a bit on boring stuff, here’s the ToDo list! ;-) Killing libgnomeui: gnome-panel Killing libglade: gdm (patch available … Continue reading →

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To GNU or not to GNU

Posted on 2009-12-13 by aklapper

Being not subscribed to GNOME’s foundation-list mailing list (and having no intention to subscribe to it), I tried to catch up a bit with the controversy of the last days. I might have missed stuff of course. Trying to summarize: … Continue reading →

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Maemo: Contributing and long-term platform strategy

Posted on 2009-12-09 by aklapper

Great to see the interest on Maemo in the last weeks. As expected, traffic in the forum, in Bugzilla and in Brainstorm has increased impressively.Discussions have been taking place (with regard to Bugzilla for example here or here) how to … Continue reading →

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maemo.org Bugday: Dec 15th, 18:00-03:00 UTC

Posted on 2009-12-07 by aklapper

I’m proudly announcing the first maemo.org Bugday: Tuesday, Dec 15th, 18:00-03:00 UTCin #maemo-bugs on Freenode IRC This is a nice way to get involved if you are a fan of the Maemo platform and the N900, but cannot or do … Continue reading →

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maemo.org Bugzilla: Minor tweaks

Posted on 2009-11-18 by aklapper

Incoming reports in the last weeks As I’m quite busy with the normal “Triaging and Syncing” business already (as seen above, a first increase of bug reports happened right after Maemo Summit in week 41, but I expect way busier … Continue reading →

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GNOME 3.0: September 2010!

Posted on 2009-11-10 by aklapper

After collecting some feedback, the GNOME Release Team has finally decided on the release date for GNOME 3.0: It will be September 2010.To take a look again at the GNOME 3 plan that was released in April 2009: Click here. … Continue reading →

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Maemo Summit 2009

Posted on 2009-10-18 by aklapper

After spending three holidays in Amsterdam (rainy but still a wonderful time) we moved from our hotel to the Openismus apartment on the evening before the summit started. Great to see the friends/colleagues again, plus only 5 minutes of walking … Continue reading →

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maemo.org Bugzilla: One year later.

Posted on 2009-10-02 by aklapper

It’s the beginning of October and one year ago I started working fulltime as maemo.org Bugmaster (after I had started together with Karsten in May 2008).Where are we and what are the plans? Stats On 29 Sep 2008 there were … Continue reading →

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