02.11.08
Camino 2008 Week 6
You can tell that the year is starting to come into its own and demand more of our contributors; it was another light week for us in the virtual land of Camino.
- If you missed the news earlier, we released Camino 1.5.5 on Thursday. Kudos to Mark Mentovai (build wrangling), Marcello Testi and all of caminol10n, and Samuel Sidler (website wrangling) for their fine work on getting the binaries in your hands.
- Mark continued providing advice and (super-)reviewing patches as I slogged through the various issues with feed handlers and the tinderboxen. He also landed another keyboard focus patch and did all the build-and-release work for 1.5.5 this week.
- Stuart Morgan wrote a couple of patches, tackled reviews from his queue, and chased after a few annoying bugs this week. Sunday evening he posted a patch to replace the problematic tab progress spinners with a static “loading” image for the short-term and tagged me with the review.
- Jeff Dlouhy posted new patches for enabling Quick Look in the Downloads window and for tab drag-and-drop.
- Sean Murphy turned around and sent Jeff’s latest tab dragging patch back with a number of review comments.
- Peter Jaros ultimately came up with the solution to the last problem with the feed handlers and the tinderboxen, and he reviewed my changes to the feed handlers AppleScript code to enable them to build successfully on the tinderboxen.
- Sam spent most of the week occupied by his Firefox 2.0.0.12 release duties, and after flipping whatever switches are required to unleash the new Firefox on the masses on Thursday afternoon, he turned right around and did all the website work required to release Camino 1.5.5. Sam also reviewed a couple of website patches over the weekend.
- I spent most of my Camino time this week trying to enable the web-based feed handlers successfully, but over the weekend I snuck in a couple of website fixes, updated Bryan Atwood’s nib for the Flashblock exceptions list, and did a quick review of Stuart’s spinner-replacement patch.
That’s it for this week; I’ll see you again next Sunday with another look back on the exciting world of Camino development. 