03.19.08
Camino 2008 Week 10/11
In case you’re wondering why your favorite planet has been light on Camino news lately, it’s probably my fault. 
I’ve been busier than normal in the non-Mozilla parts of my life. However, we’ve not been standing completely still over in Camino-land, so here’s a quick overview of what we’ve been doing the last few weeks.
- First, the 2008 Google Summer of Code is coming up, and we’ve been thinking about project ideas we’d like to see student developers work on with us (we’ll have our existing ideas added to the Mozilla page soon). If you have any ideas you think would make good summer projects for Camino (keeping in mind the “summer” time-frame), or if you’re interested in applying to the SoC to work on Camino, please feel free to contact us on irc or leave a comment here.
- Samuel Sidler spearheaded the drive to update our main toolbar icons to fit in better on 10.5, and the first fruits of that labor are now in the nightly builds (well, have been for about two weeks now). I think the new icons do a good job of maintaining the Camino identity across three major OS versions, fitting in better on Mac OS X 10.5 where we need stronger, harder lines, while managing not to look terribly out-of-place on the unified toolbar of Mac OS X 10.4 and on the “faded pinstripes” of Mac OS X 10.3.9. (For those of you not lucky enough to have Camino in your Dock, you can take a look at our screenshots.) Special thanks go to Philippe Wittenbergh who helped us solve the color and filesize conundrum with the new icons.
- Sam has continued working on refining the infrastructure for our website, with a little bit of help from me. He and I have also been working on deploying the new, improved software update script that Stuart Morgan wrote; the new script allows us more customization and even the possibility of a completely localized update experience.
- Speaking of localization, our cohort of localizers are hard at work on localizing what will become Camino 1.6. Stefano Biagioni Wrobleski, our pt-BR localization lead, has offered to mentor new teams just getting started, so if Camino is not available in your language, now is a great time to join the caminol10n team. In addition, Sam and I, in collaboration with caminol10n lead Marcello Testi and German localizer Tobias Stohr, have been working on a policy for localization of our new set of default bookmarks.
- Jeff Dlouhy, Sean Murphy, Markus Magnuson, and I have all been working on patches or reviews for smaller bugs.
That’s it for now; more next week…I hope.