Weekly Status Report, W20/2007

I've not been blogging a lot last week, but that doesn't mean nothing was going on. In fact, lots stuff is happening, and I probably spent more time with code than blogging...

Here's a rough report on my SeaMonkey work in week 20/2007 (May 14 - 20):

• Upcoming releases:
  The target for Firefox release has been pushed out to May 29 due to their new RC for 2.0.0.4, which fixed a Firefox-only problem though. QA on our candidates looks promising, we probably can release exactly those builds next week.
• suiterunner switch:
  After some discussion, download manager has been temporarily fixed to use the old xpfe variant until the new toolkit backend stabilizes somewhat. Profile migrator has landed and works well enough for importing SeaMonkey 1.x profiles, even though it still has some rough edges and will be improved later on.
  I did a patch for a suite/installer Makefile so that we can abandon xpinstall/packager with the switch to suiterunner (just got review and checked it in today), and supplimentary fixes for tinderbox configs in the suiterunner bug, which we also need for the real switch, and are still waiting for review.
  Oh, and we're trying to get an OK from Rob Strong to check in NSIS as-is and integrating his re-review comments "post mortem". Hopefully we'll get such an OK soon, and can provide a Windows installer with suiterunner from the beginning.
  That said, the switch is really near, the major blockers are out of the way.
• code fixes:
  Apart from above mentioned suite/installer and tinderbox config patches for suiterunner, I stumbled over "set as default mail app" missing in Windows suiterunner prefs, and fixed that, did a patch for breakpad integration, investigated remnants of content packs and filed a patch for removing them from non-obsolete code - and started to look into replacing wallet with satchel.
• "Source L10n":
  Temporarily using xpfe download manager regressed this a bit, but we're on track for getting this in suiterunner - the German L10n builds from CVS and mostly works (apart from unresolved dependencies of bug 286110 like download manager or wallet.
• Themes:
  Started porting over my themes to suiterunner. Realized that it might be a good idea to import those into another git repository before going too far on this, so that moving around code gets tracked better than with CVS.
• SeaMonkey Marketing Shop:
  Added a sweatshirt and a shopping bag to http://www.cafepress.com/SeaMonkeySuite.
• SeaMonkey slogan(s):
  Posted Summary of votes and proposals - not sure where to go from here (see newgroup posting fro details).
• Trademark policy:
  Gerv told me his contact, from which he hasn't heard back yet, need to mail that contact directly to show someone's actually interested in that topic.
• Various discussions:
  Took part in the big platform discussion, making clear our support of Mozpad, dropped newsgroup notes about interesting things I learned when glancing at the git mailing list (graft, MinGW port installer), Firefox3 UI (if e.g. places is well-thought-through, we could perhaps discuss adopting it later on), different issues about things we still need/want to improve in suiterunner once it has landed, like shell service, debug UI, plugin finder, and others.

I hope we can flip the big switch and can make suiterunner live this upcoming week!