12.22.08

Camino 2008 Week 50-51

Posted in Camino at 12:41 am by Smokey

…or, “Two weeks, two releases, and lots of other fun.”

• First and foremost, we released Camino 1.6.6 on Tuesday in sync with the Gecko 1.8.1.19 release. Special thanks to Marcello Testi and the entire caminol10n team for the quick turn-around when we switched the order of Camino 1.6.6 and Camino 2.0 Beta 1. As usual, Stuart Morgan was my partner in crime on this release, and Samuel Sidler kept the webserver happy during and after the release.
• In addition to his role on the release team, Stuart performed his usual complement of reviews and super-reviews. He also finally got to land his patch to prevent stray frames of QuickTime (and other plug-in) content from persisting when switching tabs and polished off the fix to enable beginning drags of background tabs with a single click.
• Sean Murphy collaborated with Stuart on the fix for dragging background tabs and performed several reviews.
• Bryan Atwood finished up his work on the exceptions list for “Block Flash animations” (aka the Flashblock whitelist) early last week, and he also returned to an old bug about hiding Flashblock placeholders for Flash animations already hidden by ad-blocking.
• Several of Christopher Henderson’s outstanding patches landed over the past two weeks, including the tab height fix that was one of the blockers for Camino 2.0 Beta 1. He was also the reviewer of record on many patches.
• The past two weeks saw not only Ilya Sherman’s first Camino patch land, but also his second. In between exams and winter break, he continued to poke various download-related bugs.
• Chris Lawson finished several patches during the recent weeks, including one that cleans up how we construct bookmark names for entries in the Address Book collection, bringing both saner behavior and improved localizability.
• The past two weeks felt a little like a never-ending race to me; I think that’s related to serving as driver and release-master for two releases in two weeks, with last week including both pushing a release live and building another! When not doing that, I helped Sam and Chris L. chase down a regression in Gecko 1.8.1.19 that broke Wells Fargo’s insane login form. Over the weekend I decided it would be relaxing (!) to make another foray into Objective-C-land, and with some great code originally written by Simon Fraser and Chris L. as a guide, a stylesheet from Philippe Wittenbergh, and Christopher H.’s help, I got our Aqua <select> override working and ready for review.

As we head into Christmas week and New Year’s, we’re definitely planning on slowing down a bit. For those of you who celebrate a holiday this week, we’ll have an early present for you (if you aren’t celebrating this week, consider it simply a random late-December gift from all of us ).

Also on the subject of scheduling notes, I don’t expect to produce a weekly update this week, but I’ll be back at the end of the year with my annual year-in-review.

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