SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2008-11-04

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: November 4, 2008, 13:00 UTC (note: changed UTC due to northern hemisphere switching off daylight saving time)
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Ratty

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn't been recorded in a bug)

• any?

SeaMonkey 2 Alpha 2

Bug Queries

open blockers all blockers blocker requests

• Freeze target is still 18th November 2008, can we make it? Do we have enough new stuff until then to warrant another alpha?
  • bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) is down to the last few nits. Waiting for review and should be able to land before the 18th.
  • bug 255834 (port Thunderbird RSS/Atom reader) has r+/sr+ so should be able to land ASAP.
  • bug 36810 (session restore) just needs some review TLC.

Longer-Term SeaMonkey 2 Planning

open wanted wanted requests

Major wanted/needed features:

• bug 381157 Download manager
  • status/progress?
• bug 390025 Kill-wallet (password manager)
  • started work on the backend again (bug 433316)
    • Got some code in place to try and obtain passwords from toolkit password manager before prompting. This fixed some of the unit tests when building with toolkit password manager.
    • Came across and fixed bug bug 461341 - when toolkit password manager migrates usernames it needs to unescape them.
    • Wallet password details haven't been kept up to date with username/hostname changes - discussions in bug 433316 on how to fix this.
    • bug 461029 POP protocol will now PR_LOG errors it also displays to the user.
    • Noticed than nsMsgMailNewsURL was the only use nsUrlListenerManager and that in turn was effectively an nsTObserverArray - replaced the appropriate code bug 461946
      • Then noticed possible (small?) perf improvement and filed bug 461951
  • Work has stalled a little in the second week (due to reviews), hoping to pick up again this week.
• bug 382187 Places history
  • still waiting for first round of review comments from Neil
• bug 36810 Session restore
  • waiting for review, patch for turning to error page also ready (bug 413385). Needs help with css/ui for error page patch.
• bug 394288 / bug 413385 Toolbar customization
  • bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) is down to the last few nits. Waiting for review and should be able to land before the 18th.
  • Toolkit bug 407725 is still waiting for reviews from gavin.
• bug 456757 Modern theme update
  • status/progress?
• bug 460699 Make the default theme look better on mac
  • status/progress?
• bug 454847 Fishcam update
  • KaiRo tried to get proposals from the blogosphere
  • what should we do?
• bug 410613 OpenSearch
  • status/progress?
• bug 453797 SeaMonkey installer improvements
  • status/progress?
• Handling bug 420506 (Thunderbird kill-rdf)
  • bug 460952 Ensure Thunderbird kill-rdf doesn't break SeaMonkey
    • status/progress?
  • bug 460953 Port jminta's kill-rdf to SeaMonkey where applicable
    • status/progress?
• bug 313822 (Make Lightning work on SeaMonkey) (helpwanted)
  • Possible dependency on bug 460960 (Port Thunderbird tabbed interface to MailNews)
• bug 248970 Do we want to port private mode ?
• bug 255834 port Thunderbird RSS/Atom reader to SeaMonkey - reviews completed checkin later today (hopefully)

Roundtable

Status Updates from developers - what are you working on, what's the progress, any other comments? (feel free to add yourself to the list if your name is missing and you have interesting status)

IanN

• Attended EU MozCamp in Barcelona
• Been working on porting / moving RSS to SeaMonkey bug 255834, further work on fixing existing issues to be done.

KaiRo

• Attended EU MozCamp in Barcelona
• bug 459413 Geolocation prompt - landed from Barcelona
• Did some build system sync with mozilla-central
• Started discussion on long-term project goals
• Removed typeaheadfind from the build as bustage fix, hopefully starting a switch to a toolkit-based implementation
• Started the Release_Process for 1.1.13, release target is Nov 12
• As always, my blog has more detailed status about my work

mcsmurf

• Got review on one patch in bug 453797 Port Bug 392303 (Simplify installer changes) to SeaMonkey installer
• Will test a few things with the installer on Vista, then request review on the other patch
• Worked on bug 461957 SeaMonkey en-US installer files and check-locales.pl disagree about variable usage
• Took a look at old roaming code and Thunderbird roaming code in a bug, but no real progress

Misak

• bug 36810 (session restore)
• bug 459550 (Port Bug 448976 (turn the Session Restore prompt into an error page) to SeaMonkey)
• bug 425480 (non-ASCII characters should be decoded in the urlbar)
• bug 455877 (port Bug 254714 to SeaMonkey)
• Bug reporting and bug triage.

Ratty

• bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) is down to the last few nits. Waiting for review and should be able to land before the 18th.
• Fixed some minor/trivial bugs: bug 388349, bug 459769, bug 462997
• Track and respond to posts in the Mozillazine SeaMonkey forums. Encourage people to file bugs (and even patches!).