Weekly Status Report, W10/2011

Here's a summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 10/2011 (March 7 - 13, 2011):

• Mozilla work / crash-stats:
  I did take a look into reports currently done by other people externally and filed bugs to get them into Socorro itself, as well as some others we talked about in a CrashKill team meeting.
  In addition, I moved most of the wiki content I produced over to a CrashKill Plan page on the Mozilla wiki, where it has a better place than on my own property.
  To get wider input, I posted my blog entry on "What Should crash-stats Do For You?" on the newsgroups and mailing lists as well and got some good replies, which I still need to take a deeper look at.
  Again, part of my time went into work on "explosiveness" reports, which I can now automatically generate on my local machine and experimentally publish on my test website.
  Next to this, I spent some time talking about and understanding what's going on with crashes we are tracking for different releases, so that I get more familiar with the work going on in this team.
• Search Bar and OpenSearch Engine Manager:
  I'm very happy I could land my probably last major SeaMonkey patch on adding optional search bar patch as well as an engine manager for OpenSearch.
• Themes:
  I once again worked a bit on keeping EarlyBlue and LCARStrek in line with trunk development and making the latter fit for Firefox 4 at some point.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  Firefox 4 RC, future release system for Firefox, RC1 crashes, SeaMonkey planning, drivers for my new bleeding-edge hardware, Discovery coming home for good, etc.

My favorite real-world "space ship", the Discovery, landed this week for the last time from a successful major mission. I bow my head in the light of this incredible machine flying 39 times to Earth orbit and not only bringing up a huge quantity of items and people but also bringing back more cargo and astronauts than any other vessel has and will for a very long time.
Still, I had my own "last major" milestone this week, in this case for SeaMonkey, landing the optional search bar and the OpenSearch engine manager ion the tree. There's one large difference here, though: While the Space Shuttle program is ending and the future of human spaceflight programs (in- and outside NASA) is unclear at best, the SeaMonkey project is going on fine, on the way to a major step with the 2.1 release, and it will also go on well and thrive in the future. I'm still helping to ensure this will be the case, and I see myself as just having laid foundation for a few things so other people can build great things upon them!