07.12.10

Camino 2010 June-Early July Roundup

Posted in Camino at 4:49 pm by

As I alluded to last month, I’ve been in a bit of a posting malaise for some time, so it has been a while since the last Camino update (let alone the last regular Camino update) here.

At the time of our last “regular” update, we were very close to shipping nightlies off of Gecko 1.9.2 and also releasing the Camino 2.0.3 security and stability update. Both of those have since happened.

Since then, we’ve been hard at work on driving the bugs blocking Camino 2.1 Alpha 1 to zarro and readying the release of Camino 2.0.4, another security and stability update. Stuart Morgan updated our Sparkle pull, went on a tear cleaning up deprecated function usage, and started attacking thorny 2.1 bugs, Gecko regressions, and revivified Flash crashes that we’d previously worked around. As a result, we’re sitting at only one blocker for 2.1a1: some continuing performance issues with the new autocomplete. In addition, Stuart pretty much single-handedly got Camino building off of mozilla-central, before we were slammed into a brick wall of embedding-unfriendly code and massive Gecko platform changes landing after the platform had reached the beta stage!

I’ve been working on fixing assorted small bugs here and there, including some changes to our AppleScript dictionary and a long-standing bug with selections in the Save dialogues (thanks to a tip from Wevah). I’ve also worked on shepherding patches into the tree—both for 2.0.4 and Gecko fixes we needed for 2.1—and have done some debugging of other bugs, old and new. In addition, I coordinated the upstreaming of Camino’s crash reporter client localizations back to the Google Breakpad project and reviewed several of Stuart’s build- and update-related patches.

So that’s more or less where we stand in mid-July. We’ll hopefully have 2.0.4 out by the end of the month, and 2.1a1 not too long after that (free time permitting). As always, if you’re interested in helping out, come find us on irc.

07.08.10

I never thought this would really happen…

Posted in Camino, Life at 1:26 am by

To borrow a line from the illustrious Jon Hicks, “I never thought this would really happen, but…” I finally got my Camino 1.0 shirt.

Back in December of 2005, Samuel Sidler emailed those of us who had worked on Camino during the post-0.8 era, announcing that there were going to be Camino 1.0 polo shirts in celebration of our forthcoming 1.0 release. Of course Sam was out West and most of the rest of us were not, so there was always the question of how we were going to get these celebratory garments; for most, the solution turned out to be the 2007 Meet-Up. I was one of the Camino team members who couldn’t make that meet-up (or the 2008 version), so, as time went on and my shirt alternately was riding around in Sam’s car or sitting in his apartment awaiting a trip to the post office, I slowly gave up hope of ever seeing it.

Then, in late May of this year, the 2010 Samuel Sidler World Tour™ rolled into town and Sam and I met for dinner—and he had stopped by wherever lost Camino 1.0 shirts were kept and picked up mine before arriving. I never thought the day would actually come…. After such a long saga, it was a surprisingly low-key ending, yet well-worth the wait.

And, because no good story is complete without pictures, here’s Sam in his Songbird kit and me in the long-awaited Camino 1.0 polo, befuddling other patrons outside the restaurant after dinner:

Sam and Smokey