Core MeeGo OBS API experiences frequent downtime

MeeGo's OBS woes grow deeper, now, with investigation by Thomas Rucker revealing that, past the near-weekly http downtime issues, the are more severe backend problems with the service: It looks like core OBS has serious stability issues with its API service. This seems to have been masked by the http downtimes so far. There are still frequent, albeit mostly shorter, downtimes of the whole OBS as seen over http(s), but the major problem as seen from linked OBS perspective is that the API remains inaccessible after such downtimes. The unavailability of the Core build service, which also brings down the Community OBS, is something of a major productivity hinderance. Hopefully the team behind it can get the kinks worked out without too much hassle.

Quim Gil's experiences with Qt Quick

Quim Gil describes his experiences in reviving the "Miniature" chess game on top of the N950 developer device programme: After the N9 launch I saw with despair that proper mobile chess was still absent in the Qt catalog. I made a second call, and almost miraculously Michael Hasselmann answered again, but this time stating clearly that he would focus on the backend and somebody else would need to work on the UI. I looked around. I looked myself in front of the mirror (mentally, I mean). The first Miniature had to deal with Qt 4.6 and QGraphicsView with no cutton or oil. Hardcore stuff. Now the declarative and Javascript friendly Qt Quick was at the forefront, waiving the slogan of Programmers and Designers Unite! I decided to give it a try, getting a tacit permission from my manager to call some of this time “training”.

MeeGo Architect team changes?

Compare and contrast: Sunil Saxena is Chief Architect and Senior Principal Engineer in the Open Source Technology Group of the Software & Services Group at Intel Corporation. He leads the MeeGo Architecture effort, and is responsible for determining what is included in MeeGo and what is not. He works with the industry in driving MeeGo acceptance and helping to get products created with MeeGo for Intel(r) Atom (tm) based platforms.

Arjan Van De Ven is the Chief Architect for Meego, responsible for the overall MeeGo architecture, day-to-day technical decisions, and architectural evolution, while leading the Distribution Development team. One of these things is not like the other. It is saddening that it's not actually surprising that there's no mention or highlighting of this change on meego.com; although it's possible that this is a mix-up and there are similar, but unrelated, titles.