Sorry I never noticed the above post before. The short answer is that the best place to "get someone to look at this" is via bugzilla.

Speaking of which, I filed a new bug on the alarm. Turns out it will cheerfully allow you to set it even if the device volume is muted, and never warn you. Ack.

Bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691

And also this one, which involves home location vs travel location: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693