11.24.08

Camino 2008 Week 47

Posted in Camino at 2:08 am by Smokey

Hat trick?

• In case you missed it, we released Camino 1.6.5 during the week, with the usual tag-team effort. We also tested our bread truck preparedness and came out winners (though it’s still not OK for a bread truck to take out any of us).
• Stuart Morgan was busy this week, tracking down a couple of potential sources of leaks and exceptions. He also went two rounds of review with Sean Murphy’s latest feature, wrote the code to enable the toolbar icon for Tab Overview, and tidied up the code to disable various toolbar buttons when Tab Overview has been invoked. In addition, Stuart tackled several large reviews and worked on incremental improvements to our security UI again this week, including writing a quick patch Sunday that makes importing a personal certificate far less confusing. By the end of the weekend, through his reviews and his patches, Stuart managed to stuff pinkerton’s sr queue more full than a turkey on Thursday.
• Sean Murphy posted two new versions of the patch for his current special project, finally winning Stuart’s r+ on the latest version.
• Christopher Henderson was part of the all-Kiwi team on #camino that tracked down a regression that broke Flashblock within 24 hours of the breakage. He also won the coveted pinkerton “Ship it!” on his proposal to fix the poorly-scaled site icons on tabs.
• Chris Lawson spent time investigating Christopher Henderson’s patch to fix our display of the BBC site icon, and after securing a number of bizarre .ico files from me for testing, reviewed the patch.
• Ilya Sherman continued poking the murky depths of our download code, and he posted a new cleanup patch after Nick Kreeger’s review of the first version.
• Philippe Wittenbergh posted another pair of iterations on the Tab Overview icon and won our approval; Stuart landed the new icon on Sunday.
• Samuel Sidler helped investigate a pageload regression we noticed last weekend, ably performing a local backout on boxset to confirm the cause of the regression.
• Besides my work on the Camino 1.6.5 release, my major accomplishment was landing my patch that exposes the first half of our Gecko strings to localization. It’s not perfect (a number of Gecko string bundles seem inexplicably to ignore the string override service), and far from complete, but it’s a big step forward for our localization teams. I also jumped in after Christopher Henderson’s investigation of the Flashblock regression and prepared a patch to upgrade our copy of Flashblock and fix the regression.

It certainly felt like a busy (and productive week), but I am looking forward to the Thanksgiving holidays this week for a bit of downtime (or at least some more pie)!

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