12.24.07

Camino: 2007 Week 51

Posted in Camino at 2:35 am by Smokey

We slowed down a little bit this week (whew!) after fixing 44 bugs over the prior three weeks, and we’re all headed off to the holidays, so expect week 52 to be light on Camino activity, too.

• Mark Mentovai continued working on follow-up bugs to all the preference panes architecture work from last week, pushing through fixes to a number of Core bugs that our changes uncovered. He also consulted on our new preference pane documentation work, started work on getting Camino to use code-signing on Mac OS X 10.5, and just as the week ended jumped into some of our undo-related bugs.
• Stuart Morgan fixed a bug that could cause Camino to crash when using the “Trash” button in the Downloads window toolbar, worked on some Core bugs affecting Camino on the trunk, and did his usual set of reviews and bug triage.
• Chris Lawson started a (re)write of our documentation for developers of third-party preference panes. What documentation we had could hardly be called “documentation” (it merely contained references to and fixes for a very small number of “gotchas” that had previously been encountered) and needed a make-over after the recent architecture changes. Chris is also working on a sample preference pane to accompany the documentation and bootstrap other developers with sane defaults. Stuart and Mark assisted with the technical side and did a little reviewing of the work.
• Jeff Dlouhy continued work on tab dragging, posting another demo movie illustrating animated dragging and another WIP patch. He also posted a demo movie of some animation he plans to add to tabsposé and helped with some artwork for the website.
• We received another new patch from Markus Magnuson, to fix a problem with our bookmarks search that he reported last summer, and the patch is currently working its way through our review system.
• This week I did a handful of little things: reviewed a few build-related patches, tested some of the proposed patches, and did a little work on ad-blocking bugs and on the website.

That’s about it for the week. Next week maybe there’ll be a 2007-in-review post instead, but in the meantime, happy Christmas wishes to all of you out there who celebrate.

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