Weekly Status Report, W49/2009

Here's a summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 49/2009 (November 30 - December 6, 2009):

• Releases:
  Freshly being back from vacation, I prepared SeaMonkey 2.0.1 this week. This is mostly a security and stability update to the 2.0 release, but also fixes a number of other glitches in that release.
  The branch nightlies now report as SeaMonkey 2.0.2pre.
• Build Machines:
  I updated the SeaMonkey build configuration for a change in how test results are reported. That made browser-chrome tests be reported to the tinderbox view correctly again.
  I filed a bug for further updating the configuration to be on top of current code again, but I wanted to have 2.0.1 out of the way for that, as I expect some redness and possibly also some work I need to do on the release configurations. Probably I will look into this on the upcoming weekend if it looks good that we can release 2.0.1 as it is right now.
  Those further updates will also be needed to fully get the re-imaged mini into the build/test pool after I got everything else finished up on that machine in this last week.
• SeaMonkey L10n:
  For 2.0.1, we can add Italian as a new available language.
  Japanese is almost ready, but still fails to build correctly due to ChatZilla string differences.
  The first build of 2.0.1 had issues as Spanish (Spain) had ChatZilla string changes that we can't take in 2.0.x and failed to build. Due to the swift reaction of Ricardo, our localizer for that language, we has a very good turnaround time to be able to do a second build where all locales built correctly.
• Various Discussions:
  SeaMonkey 2.0 feedback - download manager, form management and other things, upcoming SeaMonkey test day, Thunderbird 3.0 getting ready for release, code signing, extension updates and 2.0.x series, commit access policy, etc.

I spent a lot of time this week working the backlogs of bugmails, normal emails (not counting anything related to support, those always get treated as low priority here), and newsgroups, as well as skimming over planet entries from the three weeks when I was gone, but I also could get started on some good work items. I'm approaching most things a bit more relaxed right now though, and I'll try to continue that habit.

Oh, and as a sidenote, the 2.0 versions of my LCARStrek and EarlyBlue themes are now online on the SeaMonkey add-ons website as well as on my personal themes page.