Thunderbird/Students/StatusUpdates/2010-03-19

Status Updates

Zach Church

Sorry I've been MIA for a couple weeks... camping for spring break, and there were no internets. I've completed all of the changes Blake suggested when I submitted my patch, but I need to write more tests. However, I'm having a hard time getting the Mozmill tests to pass, even without my patch applied, so I need to figure that out. Once that's done, writing the tests that I need to write shouldn't be a problem.

Lindauson Hazell

Firstly, I apologize for missing last week's post, I moved international to St. Kitts (Leeward Islands, Caribbean).

I was puzzled for some time about the the code that impacted the menu overlay settings. I had been told at the beginning, in the bug definition that all I needed to do is insert the missing control elements into the mailWindowOverlay.xul.

Well, that should have been simple, but its been this long and I'm still not done. Primarily because I've been on a wild goose chase (well sorta). Apparently there are multiple mailWindowOverlay.xul files. I was simply editing the wrong one.

So, my changes are at least impacting the ui, but just not in the way that I expect it to. For example, disabling a menu object in code dosen't necessarily disable the on-status of that object at runtime, but removing the initialization somehow does.

Gonna keep working on this. I'm a little slower than most at this, but I think I'm close.

Lin

Who’s writing the blog post this week?

Tim Miller