02.02.09

Camino 2009 Week 5

Posted in Camino at 11:01 pm by Smokey

Last week felt pretty busy again in Camino-land, perhaps because of two major landings (complete with lots of file additions to keep me on my toes during check-in).

• Stuart Morgan again kept the review queues moving during the week.
• Sean Murphy posted a patch to fix the tab dragging bug on 10.4 and a patch to work around the double-encoded ampersand in search plug-ins on 10.3.9. He also resurrected his patch implementing the back-end for anti-phishing, and after it was checked in, he spent the rest of the week investigating issues with the static build.
• Christopher Henderson continued work on a “Allow Flash From This Page” item for easy Flashblock whitelisting. In addition, his patch to auto-close bookmark folders opened while dragging bookmarks landed during the week.
• Chris Lawson did some more work on his bookmark bugs last week, and he also updated his patch for downloads preferences realignment.
• As mentioned previously, Ilya Sherman’s patch to enable Growl notifications for completed downloads also landed last week.
• Philippe Wittenbergh produced another half-dozen variations on the full content zoom icon, and he also continued debugging the tab-switching failure on whitehouse.gov.
• Samuel Sidler welcomed a brand new tinderbox into the world during the week. Like most newborns, this tinderbox has been fussy and demanding of attention.
• I continued the debugging theme from the prior week, helping Sean look at the 10.3.9 ampersand bug and providing some debugging data for Boris Zbarsky, who had been looking at the hang on lufthansa.com. I also attempted to help Sean figure out the static build issues with his anti-phishing patch—before realizing I had forgotten the cardinal (and ultimate) rule of adding components. It was not a winning week for my memory, but we survived my lapses. I also managed to check in a few of my own patches and to perform some tinderbox maintenance during the week.

As for the week ahead, a number of the recent Gecko bugs that have been annoying Camino nightly users look like they’re on-track for landing, which should be a welcome relief to many!

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