04.06.08

Camino 2008 Week 13/14

Posted in Camino at 11:41 pm by Smokey

Just a brief reminder that the student application deadline for the 2008 Summer of Code is Monday, April 7.

  • Since the last update two weeks ago, we’ve released two new betas. As usual, Stuart Morgan was chasing down the last bug fixes, Mark Mentovai did the build-wrangling, and I handled pushing all the changes to the website and to software update.
  • In addition to chasing down the last few beta blockers, Stuart has also been alternating between working on the few remaining code bugs for 1.6, starting to clean up regressions on the trunk caused by Core changes, triaging the 2.0 bug list, and doing other fun code cleanup. He also snuck in a patch to support a couple of multi-touch gestures produced by Apple’s new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro trackpads.
  • Chris Lawson, working with Philippe Wittenbergh’s river of error reports, got Camino trunk building again with the 10.5 SDK (we last verified 10.5 SDK compatibility before we made compiler warnings fatal, so the problems were only warnings about deprecated functions).
  • Our fearless leader, Mike Pinkerton, wrote a brief note in honor of Mozilla.org’s 10th anniversary. For more of his remembrances of the decade, you can read (or listen to) his interview with the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank or watch his Google TechTalk.
  • Sean Murphy finished his work to prevent Camino from completely overwriting corrupt WebSearchEngines.plist files and continued his investigation of a new feature we’re tentatively planning for Camino 2.0.
  • In addition to my work on the two betas, I worked on finishing up the set of files that our localization teams will need to translate for the ✈ release (Mark had the final word on the text, as always). In between working on updating the website so that it will be ready for the release of 1.6, I’ve written a few small patches to Gecko’s Mac font defaults. I also spent some time this weekend working on the “one license to rule them all” problem and made Thunderbird generate its license.html file from the shared Toolkit file, reducing the number of copies of the license file from three to two. Once we make the shared Toolkit file sufficiently generic, we can reduce that number down to one.

As the pilots say, we’re going through our pre-flight checklist right now, and we expect ✈ to be cleared for takeoff in about a week, depending on the schedule for the next Gecko release. In the meantime, please let us know if you find any problems in Camino 1.6 Beta 4.

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