01.19.09

Camino 2009 Week 1-3

Posted in Camino at 2:28 am by Smokey

Welcome to 2009 and the first, albeit belated, Camino weekly update of the new year! Unlike the odd start to 2008, when we were committing fixes as fast as mento could spin in his chair, we’ve started 2009 at a more relaxed pace.

• Stuart Morgan kept us moving over the holidays and the beginning of the year by taking point on the review/superreview queues.
• Sean Murphy has been working on some polish to the draggable tabs; he’s posted a patch which improves performance, and he also started looking into the drawing bug on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
• Christopher Henderson also helped keep us moving by performing reviews and providing patch assistance. Once he finishes his UTF-8 display bugs, Christopher plans on investigating some potential avenues for improved AppleScript support.
• Ilya Sherman has continued pounding away at his Growl patch, producing six new versions to meet review comments in the past few weeks. Fans of Growl will be happy to hear that the patch has now passed review from both Stuart and Christopher, so the last hurdle remaining is superreview.
• Chris Lawson likewise was part of the patch-review fun over the past few weeks, and he recently wrangled with code related to feeds:.
• Philippe Wittenbergh has been busy taking care of our graphics and CSS needs. He’s produced another half-dozen or so mockups for the full-content zoom icons and helped us keep up with the Google “site icon-of-the-week” merry-go-round.
• For me, the past few weeks have been marked by the absolute lack of release-related craziness, which has been a great relief after November and December. Early in the new year I landed my patch for the Aqua <select> override; since then I’ve also updated ad-blocking and, this weekend, put together the project and Makefile changes to support Ilya’s Growl patch.

Most of the big landings for Camino 2 are now behind us, so the “exciting” code changes won’t be as prominent in the weeks to come. However, we hope to apply some nice polish to the nightly builds on our way to bringing you a shiny Camino 2 in the weeks to come!

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