[Gpe-list] GPE on Nokia N810 with OS2008

[Graham Cobb]

Gregor,

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 07:02:30 gregor.buergisser at bluewin.ch wrote:
> I'm a newbie to GPE and also to the Nokia N810...
> I've just started to use GPE and like it so far.

Welcome!

> The problem I have: The program crashes when I try to create new
> categories for contacts or todo.
> Are you aware of this problem?

Yes.  You can report bugs, and check out the currently known bugs, using the 
GPE bugzilla: http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/.  This is reported as bug number 
128: http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128.  Feel free to add 
yourself as a CC: to get reports on progress.

The big problem has been that none of the GPE developers had a chinook device 
to debug the problem on.  I received my N810 yesterday so I hope to have this 
fixed fairly quickly (but due to pressure of work it may not be until next 
week -- watch the bug report for news).

> How regularly do you release updates of GPE?

For complete GPE releases, see the GPE roadmap: 
http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/GPERoadmap.  This hasn't been updated 
recently, although 2.8 was released last summer as planned.  I normally only 
update the main user repositories for Maemo GPE in line with these GPE 
releases, as they get most testing.

I do provide automatically built (but not tested) packages for Maemo GPE built 
from the latest SVN sources every few days (see 
http://www.cobb.uk.net/NokiaIT/daily.html).  But I only recommend those for 
developers or for getting a particular bugfix before it is more generally 
released.

However, once the categories crash is fixed and tested (and possibly one or 
two other chinook-specific problems), I will be updating new GPE packages for 
chinook into the extras-devel repository, and the new version will be 
available from the installation links at 
http://www.cobb.uk.net/NokiaIT/index.html#gpe.  I will also create pages in 
the IT2008 downloads section of the maemo.org site for the GPE components at 
that time.

Welcome, again, to the GPE community.  And if you feel like contributing 
(development, bug fixing, testing or writing howtos and documentation) please 
feel free to help!

Graham