03.03.08
Camino 2008 Week 9
This week we reached one of the last major milestones on the way to ✈, the localization freeze. Our hard-working team of translators are now at work at bringing you what-will-be-Camino-1.6 in over a dozen languages. (Also, if your language doesn’t currently ship in Camino 1.5.5 Multilingual, now is a great time to stop by caminol10n and learn how to bring Camino to your language!)
- Stuart Morgan worked hard this week on getting the last localization-sensitive bugs reviewed and landed. He fixed bugs related to OpenSearch support, the Keychain, software update, and spell-checking. If you’re on Mac OS X 10.5, you can now sanely switch which dictionary the spell-checker uses (unfortunately, Apple provided no way to implement this before 10.5, so everyone else still must use this method), and all users can look forward to selectively enabling or disabling spell-checking for any given text field. In addition to reviewing Camino patches, this week Stuart also reviewed some patches to Core code that affects Camino.
- Sean Murphy finished his work on OpenSearch follow-up bugs this week, reviewed some of Stuart’s new code, and started work on his next major project: fixing the tab chain throughout the entire browser window.
- Markus Magnuson posted his patch to replace most of our “Cancel” buttons with names that are more descriptive of the button’s function, e.g. “Don’t Quit” instead of simply “Cancel.” Stuart and I reviewed the patch on Friday evening and Stuart committed it that night, bringing the localization freeze into effect.
- Samuel Sidler and I both spent time this week investigating why caminobrowser.org has been experiencing periods of slow responsiveness and apparent high resource usage recently.
- I spent most of this week on QA activities, triaging unconfirmed bugs, chasing down regression ranges, and other things of that nature, though I also landed a new
.nibto fix tabbing in the Pop-up Exceptions List on 10.5. I spent most of my Camino time over the weekend working on getting Mochitest running with Camino and trying to avoid the latest uncivil unrest.
We’re down to only a few bugs blocking Camino 1.6 Beta 3, so continue to expect it “soon.” 
March 3, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’m intrigued as to why I see a small graphical ‘airplane’ in your blog posts… it just looks weird to me. I can provide a screenshot if you want?
March 3, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Colin, the explanation for use of the Unicode character “airplane” is here; once again it looks like I’ve failed to properly make the connection in the post.