06.16.08
Camino 2008 Week 24
I mentioned previously that WWDC and the Camino Meet-Up would probably lead to less Camino work last week, but that wasn’t exactly the case; there was still enough interesting activity for me to write up a brief weekly summary.
- Mike Pinkerton, Stuart Morgan, Nick Kreeger, Jeff Dlouhy, and Peter Jaros all attended WWDC and presumably learned lots of valuable information under NDA. Our fearless leader also pulled a tree on whatever laptop he had with him for the conference, so it’s possible he’s up to something.
- About two-thirds of our active development team made it to California for Saturday’s second-annual meet-up. In addition, Desmond Elliott was patched in from across the pond via voice and video chat, and I joined the video chat during the afternoon. Samuel Sidler will write more about the meet-up, and post a summary to the wiki, in the coming days. There were many fruitful discussions, but, as I understand, the real highlight for Jeff was finding out that I was not, in fact, a figment of everyone’s imagination or some form of artificial intelligence.
- Chris Lawson worked on various bugs over the course of the week, including a patch to remove more Windows ampersand shortcut marks from Core strings that are passed to our alerts. He also worked on fixing a few bugs in our HTML bookmarks importer until Stuart decided to take the old importer out behind the woodshed and put it out of its misery.
- Stuart started fixing some of the lingering problems preventing our chrome from being completely compatible with Apple’s accessibility API, moved most of our menu code over to a newer API, and started working on a replacement for the aforementioned HTML bookmarks importer.
- When he wasn’t on the job or representing Camino at WWDC parties, Sam continued bringing up our replacement tinderboxen (with help from Mark Mentovai on a pesky Ts timeout); we now have two G4 minis cranking out builds while we await the return of our Xserve.
- My contributions for the week were some assistance with the tinderbox configs, a handful of checkins, and finishing the May ad-blocking bug, as well as a bit of the usual triage.
In spite of all the conferring taking place, we weren’t standing completely still on the code front last week. Hopefully this week will see an end to our tinderbox woes and development on Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 can resume in earnest!