Weekly Status Report, W01/2008

The first week of the new year still was dominated by holiday and New Year celebrations, but I managed to get some SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work items completed which had been waiting for some time, here's a short summary of what I could do in that area in week 01/2008 (December 31, 2007 - January 6, 2008):

• SeaMonkey Project Organization:
  Finally could post to the official SeaMonkey blog about the SeaMonkey Council Restructuring (CTho left, but ajschult, Mnyromyr and Standard8 have joined us instead).
  I also finally posted the SeaMonkey 2 Alpha Criteria here on my blog, and marked the most grave showstoppers as blocking-seamonkey2.0a1+.
  Both those events should help us getting a good start into this new year and pave the way for getting a good major release in 2008.
• Nightly Build Optimizations:
  I switched the SeaMonkey tinderboxen to use the default optimizations instead of explicitely setting them in the mozconfigs, which enables us to use different optimization settings for different parts of the tree and balance binary size vs. performance much better. Firefox is doing the same now, and improvements of the in-tree default settings are under investigation.
• Source L10n:
  I came around to port the CVS-based language pack approach to venkman, so we hopefully should get that extension (optionally) localized from source as well soon. This will enable us to ship fully localized SeaMonkey 2 releases directly from files in the CVS repositories.
  I also found a small problem with update packaging for localized builds on our Mac machine, I hope we can fix this quite easily.
• German L10n:
  A few small updates had to be made to keep SeaMonkey green, but nothing spectacular.
  I locally prepared a current German venkman localization to test the work stated above and will land this when the main patch goes in.
• Various Discussions:
  Preferences window migration, thoughts on future of address book, web discrimination, etc.

I also managed to post a long-prepared statement on web discrimination right at the end of the year, and I hope the Mozilla story of 2008 increasing their focus on spreading what the Mozilla Manifesto is about will also help us to spread the word about this injustice in today's web landscape.