Weekly Status Report, W36/2009

Here's a summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 36/2009 (August 31 - September 6, 2009):

• Releases:
  Released 1.1.18, including putting relnotes and announcements online and uploading contributed builds.
  Also, SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2 went into a freeze, I did start the release process, including tagging and creating builds and updates for all 17 languages including US English. The process went smoother than for 2.0b1 but still had a few hiccups, both due to my faults and the build machines not being as stable and speedy as we could hope.
• Build System:
  Created and landed a patch to ship an add-on blocklist in our builds, and as AMO people also updated the list there and I used that, we are now saving our users from crashes etc. from bad plugins right from the start.
• Identity/EV UI:
  My patch for an identity icon in the Page Info "Security" tab could land this week right before 2.0b2 was frozen up, so people get a better visual clue on the security of the viewed page.
• SeaMonkey L10n:
  We had 16 locales opting in with valid changesets, unfortunately cs didn't make it this time, but nl joined and the ones that were unofficial for Beta 1 are also official in Beta 2 so we are up 2 languages for 17 official languages supported including US English in Beta 2. I hope the numbers will rise even more for the RC(s) and final.
• Various Discussions:
  Mac build boxes, tree rules towards 2.0, Lightning support, quit dialogs, 1.1.18 NSS problems on ancient Windows and intermittently on Linux, SeaMonkey and Snow Leopard, www.mozilla.org planning, Mozilla Camp Europe, Mozilla Weekly Project Meetings, etc.

Tabbed mail landed in time for SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2, so we have all the features in that we wanted to have in the 2.0 series! Thanks to everyone who has worked on getting us here, I hope we now can take this remaining month to polish up this version enough that it's ready for shipping as an official 2.0 release.

Also, thanks to jenzed from Mozilla Messaging for putting up SMILE documentation on MDC so SeaMonkey add-on developers can find resources about those APIs!