SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2023-05-28: Difference between revisions

* We want to create a gitlab patch/fixes repo for classic XUL extensions.

** '''IanN''' is looking into it.

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** '''frg''' tried locally in a Rocky 8 vm and the generated symbols turned out to be incomplete.

** We are looking into moving to bugsplat.com for crash reports.

* The '''WGS9s''' servers are working fine and unofficial builds are being released.

* We have created repos at [https://foss.heptapod.net/seamonkey hg heptapod] to mirror some of our code.

* Compiler support is up to date.

** clang 6 to 15, gcc 7.1 to 11 can be used to build on Linux or clang only for macOS.

** macOS arm builds are still not possible amd would need to be notarized which means buying an Apple developer certificate at least.

** clang 7 to 15, VS2017 15.9.13+ and VS2019 are supported under Windows x64.

** Mozilla skipped clang 10 support because of unspecified problems and did go straight to clang 11 from 9. We will not support clang 10 either. It can be used but is unsupported by us. gcc 9 and up did not get much/any testing so ymmv.

* The latest macOS sdk is now supported in 2.53.15b1 or later.

* Native macOS builds are broken and need fixes which would break building on the CentOS 7 builder.

* Current Firefox and Thunderbird only support macOS 10.12 or higher. Based on feedback received after fixing incompatibilities we did set the minimum macOS version to 10.11.

** We are evaluating options. Best would be to still have the source code in together with Thunderbird otherwise we would need to merge mozilla and Thunderbird changes into a new repo.

** A unified repo will be slow and cumbersome to handle in any case.

* Various non SeaMonkey/comm-central specific problems now seem to pop up using mach bootstrap. One wonders how this is tested and got r+ lately...

** Builds now needs nsis 3.07 under Windows. Bootstrap fails to install it.

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* '''SeaMonkey 2.53.16''' was released on March 31st.

** The release was tracked in {{Bug|1824833}}.

*** The Fedora maintainer already added some of this and we will likely use this in the official release.

* Some languages might need new or more translators. See [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3077284 help wanted for translating].

* ''' frg''' proposes to skip beta releases because we get no or minimal feedback only and this delays delivering security fixes among other things.

** No consensus reached about it yet so we will continue with the current release Beta/GA cycle.

* A meta bug {{Bug|1584728}} tracks the rdf removal from SeaMonkey.

** Old 2.53.x bugs are still marked as not fixed in bugzilla. We will mark them as fixed as time permits.

* We are looking into adding support for Custom Elements and Shadow DOM in a later release. No ETA yet.

** Google owned/based websites like youtube are likely to break because of this in the near future. There are already reports of broken functionality on youtube.

** {{Bug|1388317}} and {{Bug|1083458}} are on the short list for backporting to 2.53. Please check and try to fix extensions still using these features.

*** JS Parser updates for later updates are hard to do because of the obsolete syntax support still in.

*** nsIPrefBranch2 and nsIPrefBranchInternal needs to be changed to nsIPrefBranch.