Daily Snapshot Review 31 January 2008

[Sean Moss-Pultz]

Kevin,

Thanks a lot for your help testing our codebase. Do let us know if there 
is anything that we can do to make what you do easier.

Sean



Kevin Dean wrote:
> Please forgive my tardiness in getting this review out. Friday saw
> some excellent things happen and most of today I spent under my car.
> 
> The "good" news is that this is still a review of the latest official
> snapshot at this time, so I didn't miss "much".
> 
> The full review can be found at:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Snapshot_review/2008-01-31
> 
> Boot time in this snapshot is down from the previous image and the
> overall system seems snappy again.
> 
> SMS works well in both directions but delivery notifications do
> nothing (that I can tell).
> 
> I found a typo in openmoko-panel-bluetooth and raised a bug as well as
> a patch (it was just a typo correction. :) )
> 
> I raised a bug in Neod - it displays an option to turn off or turn on
> Bluetooth but this doesn't actually do it.
> 
> I found that one game that's included, Solo, can't be played because
> there is no longer a panel applet to pull up the keyboard. It's
> possible there are other issues in Games I've just not found them yet.
> A bug was raised.
> 
> I've changed the way I rate "Incoming Call Quality". My previous
> reviews listed them as "Bad" because of the microphone picking up all
> ambient noise. I realized, however, that this is a local issue and
> this noise isn't transmitted across the line. So despite the crappy
> sound on OUR side, callers still hear clear voice. I figured it would
> be best to make this distinction and I  decided to do it there.
> 
> My recommendation is that users update to this image. For all my
> testing over the past day and a half I had minor issues overall.
> 
> -Kevin Dean
>