Weekly Status Report, W23/2011

Here's a short summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 23/2011 (June 6 - 12, 2011):

• Mozilla work / crash-stats:
  More investigation of Firefox 5.0b2 vs. 5.0b3, but mostly waiting for data on 5.0b5 to come to a conclusion about this upcoming release. We still have too few people on the Beta and Aurora channels to make good and swift assessments of crashiness, though.
  Still concerned about the hang volume on 5.0, we'll need to put more investigation into this.
  Came to the conclusion that turning off PGO for JS between 5.0b2 and 5.0b3 probably did not change the crash volume, but only shifted crash locations back to well-known signatures (affects mostly GC and MethodJIT crashes).
  Found a significant decrease of hangs on trunk some time ago, which in turn led to realizing that the problem it fixed affected Aurora and the fix needed to land there as well.
  Of course, looked into "explosive"/rising crashes with my experimental stats.
  Worked with the bmo and Socorro people to push and verify the new Crash Signature field in Bugzilla.
  Made sure the bugs targeted at the Socorro 1.9 milestone are not forgotten as that release is dropped.
  Started work on Q3 priorities/goals to hand to the Socorro team.
• Jökulsárlón Download Manager
  The new 0.4 version I submitted last week just got review and is now available on AMO!
• SeaMonkey Build & Release:
  I helped Callek with a small things to get 2.1 final done and out the door, including the fix of a glitch in update generation.
  Got a decision and implemented the version bump on post-2.1 trees.
• SeaMonkey L10n:
  Accepted a few L10n sign-offs for 2.2 beta.
• German L10n:
  Updated inspector L10n, readied language packs for ChatZilla and venkman for AMO, updated trunk localization.
  Localized the 2.1 announcement, corrected localized relnotes, and made 2.1 public for German as well.
• Themes:
  Did some more work on LCARStrek for Firefox 4, this is starting to look good.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  Ad/malware crashes, non-granted reviews on FF search code and changed dataman invocation, SeaMonkey 2.1 release feedback, mozilla-inbound, multi-process tabs, MemShrink, beta build turnaround speed, MeeGo N900 DE becoming Community Edition (CE), making desktop layout more fitting for full-HD resolution, etc.

The big news for this week surely is that SeaMonkey 2.1 has finally been released! The last few weeks have been a bit bumpy, with various packaging and installer issues, and it's still a bit unclear if all of them have been resolved, but we've finally done it. I was more involved in the final shipping than what I should, but Callek's TODO list is piling up and I could help with a few small tasks that made things run more smoothly and faster overall, so I did that. This is a somewhat emotional moment for me, as I have considered 2.1 "my last SeaMonkey release" for some time, but I want to address this in a separate post (hope I find time for it).

And in terms of my "Crash Scene Investigation" work, things are shaping up nicely, from closely watching Firefox 5 via tooling improvements to working on goals for the next quarter, a lot of items are moving - and that's always a good sign.