Weekly Status Report, W43/2007

Another interesting week has passed, and here's a summary of my SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work items in week 43/2007 (October 22 - 28):

• SeaMonkey Releases:
  I spent some time uploading additional builds for SeaMonkey 1.1.5, and started discussion on 1.1.6, which we probably need to do fast for layout regressions that unfortunately crept into Gecko 1.8.1.8 - this is one reason why we'd need better testing of candidate builds so such regressions can be fixed before instead of after a release!
• SeaMonkey 2 Planning:
  I blogged on my view on SeaMonkey 2 goals this week, I'm also planning on writing up a similar doc for the whole SeaMonkey project soon. Some progress is happening again on a few major open areas for the future of the suite, like preferences rework, feed reader, IPC or mozStorage queries. Additionally, I had an interesting IRC talk about user agent stuff, maybe Flock people are interested in the same dynamic spoofing and evang feature we'd like to see, even Prism could possibly want this (Mozilla Labs are not using a UA containing "Firefox" for this project).
  I think we should start assembling criteria for what we need to release an Alpha of SeaMonkey 2 code, as I think we are coming to a point where such a state might be getting within the range of vision.
• Source L10n:
  I suck. Everything (!) depends (!) on me (!) making an announcement in mozilla.dev.l10n so that localizers can start with SeaMonkey trunk L10n in CVS, but I didn't yet come up with the time to write it. I hope I can do so soon, there are a few things I need to point out there before people can import their stuff.
  On other fronts, the patch for ChatZilla as real extension in SeaMonkey went in, so I can continue to work on CVS-based ChatZilla langpacks.
• German L10n:
  I'm continuing to try to keep trunk as well-working as possible, another set of reviews is pending at the moment.
• Various Discussions:
  ChatZilla-as-extension, release strategies, prefwindow migration, browser notifications, themes and icons, mozilla2, etc.

Currently, big things are going on in many areas regarding the future of the suite, I hope I can report many of them progressing to important milestones or even being completed in the next weeks!