09.22.08

Camino 2008 Week 38

Posted in Camino at 12:07 am by Smokey

We had another productive week this week as we pushed towards Camino 2.0 Alpha 1.

• Stuart Morgan landed a bit of code early last week to make Tabsposé appear more quickly and spent some time this weekend finally hooking the feature up in the main menu. He also developed a patch to add a “Recently Closed Tabs” sub-menu to the History menu, worked on integrating the latest version of Sparkle, and joined in the bug-fixing related to Friday’s keyboard loop landing. Stuart also performed his usual complement of reviews and super-reviews.
• This week fearless build-wrangler Mark Mentovai built the Camino 1.6.4 release candidate and later solved a serious case of missing tinderbox mail.
• Sean Murphy’s new keyboard loop for the main browser window landed this week and fixed no fewer than a dozen bugs, the oldest dating to June 2002. He’s been working on fixing the regressions and other bugs that have turned up in early testing, and he’s also been working on another project and doing some reviews.
• Chris Lawson has continued to attack assorted smaller bugs, fixing problems with an obscure Preferences window property list key and with the site icon in the location bar getting out of sync with the site in displayed in the tab. He also whipped up a patch to migrate our NSUserDefaults hidden preference for inline autocomplete to the Gecko preferences system.
• Christopher Henderson spent this week starting to work on implementing a fullscreen mode for Camino; rumour has it he has a working prototype and is implementing the bezel as this goes to press.
• Jeff Dlouhy spent some time dusting off bits of in-progress Tabsposé code, working on getting highlighting working in the Tabsposé view.
• This week I continued coordinating the upcoming Camino 1.6.4 release and starting to push the team toward a freeze for Camino 2.0 Alpha 1. Peter Jaros reviewed my AppleScript dictionary patch, so I landed that, as well as patches from “the two Chrises” and Sean. In addition, I filed a number of follow-up bugs on the new keyboard loop and did a few reviews. Over the weekend Stuart and I also helped one of our users get his tree working so that he could look at finishing the long-stalled Growl-for-downloads patch.

This week we should see the Camino 1.6.4 release (pending the Gecko 1.8.1.17 release), and hopefully we’ll have all the blockers landed and be frozen for 2.0a1.

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