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20. Februar 2008
Weekly Status Report, W07/2008
After a few extra days in the blogosphere's orbit, I can report a successful landing for the summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related tasks I worked on in week 07/2008 (February 11 - 17, 2008):
I hope to see at least some of you this weekend in Brussels and hope to meet more of you in April when I'll be doing a trip to California - it now looks like we'll be visiting not only the San Francisco Bay Area, but will go for some long drives and go to Las Vegas and Los Angeles as well, as the friend of mine who joins me for this trip is eager to see as much as possible on his first US vacation. I just need to find some reasons now why I need to visit those other cities for business, so that financial authorities over here will still believe this is a business trip...
In any case, I'm looking forward to meet as many Mozillians as possible in Brussels and California!
- Preferences work:
I iterated through review comments on sanitize (clear private data), and started working on a part of appearance prefs, splitting content preferences from the main pane, but integrating UI language switching into that main panel instead (also worked on the ChatZilla changes needed along with that.
Additionally, I started porting the application preferences panel from Firefox to SeaMonkey, which turned out to be really heavy work, as it needed (and still needs) lots of rework due to review comments, a few times driving me into frustration - but I keep recovering and picking up work again.
- FOSDEM:
As you probably already know, I'll be in Brussels this upcoming weekend, spending time in the Mozilla developer room at the FOSDEM conference, chatting with other Mozillians, listening to their talks and giving my own talk, titled "And the beast shall come forth..." about community project organization and SeaMonkey 2.
I've spent some times last week preparing this talk, doing more this week to make it short enough to fit in the given time slot. - Unicode … Ellipsis:
As the core toolkit has been switching from triple-dots to the unicode ellipsis in UI, even for menu entries ending in the famous three dots, I've filed and checked in a patch to do the same for SeaMonkey this week so that we stay consistent with the core.
Note to localizers: No semantic changes here, so the IDs stayed as they were, it's your choice to follow that change or not, but you should stay consistent with the what's being done for toolkit/core in your language. - Website, Bugzilla:
Two unrelated notes about small issues on two websites:
After a server upgrade this week, we saw internal server errors on the SeaMonkey website, the configuration was missing an option that has been added again now.
And as noted in a previous blog entry, we now have a SeaMonkey description and logo for the "Mozilla Application Suite" product on the bugzilla.mozilla.org bug entry pages. - Source L10n:
Polish has been added as the 12th language supported on SeaMonkey trunk, Czech has added ChatZilla support. - German L10n:
Not many changes this week for localizers, as Firefox is pretty much frozen, but kept the German core and SeaMonkey trees green. - Various Discussions:
California traveling, password manager (pending core fixes), toolbar customization (pending core fixes), JS 1.7 in XBL (done core fix!), overlay handling (pending core problem/fix), wrong Cu.import error reporting, full zoom changes, sidebar directories, mac menu icons and -moz-image-region (core problem), uncaught crashes, etc.
I hope to see at least some of you this weekend in Brussels and hope to meet more of you in April when I'll be doing a trip to California - it now looks like we'll be visiting not only the San Francisco Bay Area, but will go for some long drives and go to Las Vegas and Los Angeles as well, as the friend of mine who joins me for this trip is eager to see as much as possible on his first US vacation. I just need to find some reasons now why I need to visit those other cities for business, so that financial authorities over here will still believe this is a business trip...
In any case, I'm looking forward to meet as many Mozillians as possible in Brussels and California!
Von KaiRo, um 15:38 | Tags: L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Status | 1 Kommentar | TrackBack: 0
My Take on Mozilla Messaging and SeaMonkey
(First of all, my apologies, I know I'm late for my weekly status update, I promise to deliver it, but I've been working on my talk for FOSDEM this weekend.)
The big news of this week is Mozilla Messaging being launched as the effort that should parallel Mozilla Corporation's Firefox effort in the email and messaging area by further developing Thunderbird.
The question this might raise with a few people around the Mozilla community is what this means to the SeaMonkey project, which shares a substantial amount of code with Thunderbird in the mail and news area.
My opinion on that is that it's cool that we now have a partner in mail and news development who takes messaging much more serious than Mozilla Corporation ever could. Mozilla Messaging does not emphasize a browser over all other products, it actually doesn't even develop a browser. This makes us sure we have an additional ally in the area of Mozilla(-based) applications that are looking beyond the browser. Even more, putting full-time developers, new ideas and visions behind the Thunderbird project might gives the mail/news code a new future and puts more development force behind that than what the SeaMonkey project and some assorted other volunteers could provide so far.
As the SeaMonkey vision is - in my eyes - to have "the Internet" as the center for browsing, messaging and more on your desktop (in our case as a single, integrated application), I'm really happy about Mozilla Messaging emphasizing that Mozilla can actually provide all that - and not "only" a damn good browser.
I (and hopefully all of my colleagues on both sides) will try to get as much cooperation between Mozilla Messaging and the SeaMonkey project as possible, so that we can drive forward both our products, which both have their respective place on their markets, as much as possible.
I'm convinced we both can profit from each other and the Mozilla mission of choice on the Internet has always shown that our community is really good at providing nothing less than excellence in fulfilling that mission.
The big news of this week is Mozilla Messaging being launched as the effort that should parallel Mozilla Corporation's Firefox effort in the email and messaging area by further developing Thunderbird.
The question this might raise with a few people around the Mozilla community is what this means to the SeaMonkey project, which shares a substantial amount of code with Thunderbird in the mail and news area.
My opinion on that is that it's cool that we now have a partner in mail and news development who takes messaging much more serious than Mozilla Corporation ever could. Mozilla Messaging does not emphasize a browser over all other products, it actually doesn't even develop a browser. This makes us sure we have an additional ally in the area of Mozilla(-based) applications that are looking beyond the browser. Even more, putting full-time developers, new ideas and visions behind the Thunderbird project might gives the mail/news code a new future and puts more development force behind that than what the SeaMonkey project and some assorted other volunteers could provide so far.
As the SeaMonkey vision is - in my eyes - to have "the Internet" as the center for browsing, messaging and more on your desktop (in our case as a single, integrated application), I'm really happy about Mozilla Messaging emphasizing that Mozilla can actually provide all that - and not "only" a damn good browser.
I (and hopefully all of my colleagues on both sides) will try to get as much cooperation between Mozilla Messaging and the SeaMonkey project as possible, so that we can drive forward both our products, which both have their respective place on their markets, as much as possible.
I'm convinced we both can profit from each other and the Mozilla mission of choice on the Internet has always shown that our community is really good at providing nothing less than excellence in fulfilling that mission.
Von KaiRo, um 03:17 | Tags: Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird | 2 Kommentare | TrackBack: 1
