02.05.08
Camino 2008 Week 5
Last week is a bit of a blur to me—I was consumed by non-Camino things—but I’ll do my best to reconstruct the week. 
- Mark Mentovai finished his work from the previous week on making the build friendlier, landed a few more tweaks to software update, and cleaned up a regression on Mac OS X 10.4 caused by some of the recent keyboard loop changes.
- Stuart Morgan fixed the new Find bar so that incremental find works sanely, did reviews and super-reviews, and helped out with the backporting of a couple of patches for Camino 1.5.5.
- I have it on good authority that Jeff Dlouhy spent a good bit of time last week hammering more of our tab code into submission while working on the next iteration of the tab drag-and-drop patch.
- Peter Jaros posted new patches on the remaining AppleScript bugs targeted for ✈.
- Samuel Sidler has been serving as the lead for the Gecko 1.8.1.12/Firefox 2.0.0.12 security releases, and that release kept him more than busy last week.
- On Monday night I checked in our patches for Camino 1.5.5, with some help from Stuart in backporting a couple of the fixes. Tuesday night I worked on the release notes for 1.5.5 and was “pressed into service” by beltzner to do a last minute review on a Firefox build patch for their Beta 3 Release. Friday evening I went to land the patch for web-based feed readers, only to discover that
osacompiledoesn’t support UTF-8 source files on Mac OS X 10.4 (while it does on 10.5) and that, for reasons that are still unclear, the.rsrcthatosacompilegenerates during the build process can sometimes differ per-architecture. Fun!
After a weekend hammering on the problem (and some pointers from Mark), we have a more robust solution—let’s hope it sticks this time.
If I’ve missed anything, I plead “long, tiring week.”
Edit: Yes, among other things, I forgot that our downloads-and-feeds-wrangler, Nick Kreeger, has taken a position with our fine feathered friends in San Francisco. Congrats, Nick!