Weekly Status Report, W35/2009

Here's a summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 35/2009 (August 24 - 30, 2009):

• Releases:
  I've spun a second round of Windows candidates for 1.1.18, things look good now for releasing this version very soon.
  In Parallel, we've frozen strings for SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2 and are taking L10n opt-in from localizers as we speak, freezing the code as well this night and hoping to kick off build very soon.
• Build System:
  I closed up filtering out the entries I had so far in my new buildsystem porting tool, and wrote up a blog entry about it.
• Identity/EV UI:
  Sitting in the train and looking for something to do, I took an hour (or possibly less) to write up a patch for an identity icon in the Page Info "Security" tab, which is where you get to when clicking on any of the security indicators in the status or url bar of the browser. With that icon, users can get an impression of the security level of a site without reading all the info on the tab in detail: green icon is an EV (extended verification) level that verifies the identity of the other side, blue icon is a normal secure level that verifies the domain of the other side, gray icon is no security.
  The patch landed after the week I'm reporting on but in time for 2.0b2.
• Automated tests:
  I filed and tried to help fix mochitest timeouts on the SeaMonkey2.0 tree, but it looks like the patch Honza Bambas came up with breaks Firefox3.5 tests, while it interestingly work well for Firefox trunk. We need to further investigate this.
• Session Store:
  I landed patches for Undo close window, another feature that came just in time before the feature freeze for the SeaMonkey 2.0 series. Thanks to Misak Khachatryan for doing the work and porting that functionality to SeaMonkey!
• SeaMonkey L10n:
  I started the opt-in thread for SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2 and hope many localizations will join the train this time!
• German L10n:
  I landed two patches with help updates, thanks to Michael Opitz for doing this work. Also, I integrated more work for fixing spelling mistakes in ChatZilla, here the thanks go to Hagen Halbach for finding them and offering a patch.
  Next to that, I updated the localization for a number of SeaMonkey changes coming in before the string freeze for the upcoming second beta.
• Various Discussions:
  Tabmail, Mac build boxes, QA team, www.mozilla.org new design going live, Mozilla Camp Europe, etc.

Tabbed mail has landed last night, and so today's nightlies are the first one to contain this feature officially, making them feature-complete for the 2.0 series! Also, the last blocker for Beta 2 just landed, more than 12 hours before the code freeze, so we should be in perfect timing for this beta - and with that, hopefully for the final as well. I'm really looking forward to both of those releases!