status update

maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>

Last Updated Saturday August 3, 2002

This status update page is updated every week. To get updates and news throughout the week you are invited to check out mozillaZine, a site devoted to Mozilla advocacy.

Previous Updates

Module Updates
Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
July 2
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Darin's back from vacation.
  • Triaging continues.

Highlights

  • dougt
    • Discussing continually bustage of JRE plugin with Sun folk. Letting them know that my offer to identify implmentation problems in the JRE plugin still stands.
    • Listened in to the OJI meeting and discussed the future direction of java intergration in Gecko.
    • Working with wtc and roy to come up with a list of API which should be UTF8 or UCS2 capable.
    • I created a patch with will make embedding/base and their examples use xpcom glue. Patch sent around for reveiw.
    • started blogging mozilla status again.
    • triaging bugs... a neverending task.
    • Finished up a category manager change which will lead to this interface being frozen shortly.
    • Started attending the cpd mangement/lead meetings. Some of them have been more entertaining than informative, however none have been boring....yet.
  • gordon
    • Returned from Sabbatical.
    • Waded through 3000+ emails.
    • Began looking at problems with phase 2 cache patch.
  • pavlov
  • gagan
    • moved to sunnyvale-- tiring but overall a good experience.

Lowlights

  • dougt
    • On monday, the Dow dropped over 300 Points
  • gordon
    • What's this TIMS thing?

Plans for next week

  • gordon
    • Meet with Darin, Doug, Jud, and Rick about prepopulated cache design.

Issues

Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
July 29
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • several bug fixed. several more triaged.
  • good kick-off meeting on precaching/prefetching.

Highlights

  • darin
    • fixed bug 157861 (trunk) - have to hit Back twice to return to '300: multiple choices'
    • fixed bug 159583 (trunk) - simple string bundle optimization
    • fixed bug 146884 - Mozilla sometimes consumes 100% CPU when pipelining is enabled...
    • attended precaching/prefetching meeting on Tuesday (bug 159044).
    • attended profile sharing meeting on Wednesday.
    • attended first half of password manager security review on Thursday.
    • attended meeting with i18n team to discuss the future of non-ASCII URIs and IDN in Mozilla.
    • reviewed state of Mozilla's HTTP/1.1 compliance with Jesse Ruderman; put together a rough game-plan for enabling pipelining by default.
    • got access to a NTLM server (thanks to Tom Everingham and Jimson Lee)
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Discussed the MRE with Ian who will present part of this strategy at the OSDC.
    • Getting my hands dirty on bug 109739. This patch should have landed back in June but we had a bit of resistance which I didn't want to bother with. If we had landed the patch back when I was pushing for we could have avoided a rush to get some fix into the branch. Thankfully, the plugin team did find a safer fix and agreed that this bug should be our ultimate fix.
    • Attending security review meetings.
    • Discussed mozilla/xpcom DSO problems with Ulrich Drepper. He may come and do a tech talk!
    • Working on showing QA how to verify two security firedrill fixes.
    • Had a nice converstation about sharing of profiles with the embedding team.
  • gordon
    • Participated in "pre-populated cache" requirements/design meeting, which turned into a "http pre-fetching" meeting instead.
    • Participated in AIM module security review.
    • Made progress on possible solution to lock order problem with phase 3 cache patch.
    • Triaged some bugs.
  • gagan
    • attended meetings on precaching/prefetching.

Lowlights

  • gagan
    • Gordon's cache level2 work may be slipping.
    • No status from Pavlov.

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • fix, triage, and review more bugs!
  • gordon
    • Update phase 3 cache patch to fix lock order and reference problems.
  • gagan
    • Virtual Nisheeth.
    • Think about improving narrowband performance.

Issues

Mailnews
July 15
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Disclaimer: this status is only for the mailnews contributors inside Netscape; other development work has been going on. Non-Netscape mail-news contributors are encouraged to send their status reports directly to <tor@cs.brown.edu>.

Highlights:

  • Continued creating Meta bugs for Buffy (Import, Feedback, Compose Window, Drag and Drop, Accessibility, 3 Pane)
  • Held Mail All Hands to brainstorm for things we'd like to work on for Buffy and after.  The top areas were Anti-Spam features and Address Book improvements.
  • Fixed a crash shutting down while offline.
  • Implemented the Palm Conduit.
  • Fixed a bug where Japanese Local Folders displayed as garbage after restarting the client.
  • Made it so that when you forward inline an encrypted message, the message is encrypted.
  • Tracked down a regression that caused Forward Inline to stop working.
  • Marked as fixed1.0.1 5 bugzilla and 3 bugscape bugs on the branch.
  • Resolved as fixed 14 bugzilla and 3 bugscape bug on the trunk

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Fixed a bug where if you exported an address book in the text/tab format, you couldn't reimport it.
    • Started working on bugs in the Import metabug for Buffy.
  • Dan
    • Worked on an SSL/SMTP regression.
    • Continued researching spam-filtering options for Mozilla.
    • Investigated and wrote a patch to make Linux builds use a default that makes debugging optimized code on Linux easier to do.
    • Landed Linux gcc 3.1 plugin compatibility patch
    • Landed LDAP OSF/1 build patch from shanmu@netscape.com
  • David
    • Fixed crash shutting down while offline.
    • Fixed memory corruption when using stand-alone msg window.
    • Helped Simon Fraser with Mac IMAP hdr download performance.
  • Varada
    • Worked on fix/patch tracking for the branch forward inline bug.
    • Have a fix for switching sender should change the signing/encryption automatically.
    • Working on a focus issue where when we type too fast in address field it is not synched
    • Working on making it so that canceling a message shouldn't automatically prompt for saving as a draft for  a new message window.
  • Bhuvan
    • Fixed the setup recapture dialog so that it doesn't assume browser.startup.homepage is netscape.com - make sure that Netscape.com or home page of our choice will be made as default homepage when the user chooses at the install time overwriting CCK customization value
    • Created a meta bug  for mailnews 3 pane window issues.
  • Srilatha
    • Worked with Varada on a regression where forward inline couldn't be used as the default forward.
    • Worked with Ninoschka in sorting out the mailing list bugs and identifying the most requested features and bugs for Buffy.
    • Worked with Sean on Win XP SP 1 support for mail.
    • Worked with Rajiv on AB work needed for Palm support.
  • Navin
    • Fixed a bug where Japanese local folder names displayed as garbage after restarting the client on the trunk and branch.
    • Drove in a fix for a trunk regression where quick search fails if focus on threadpane before search box. Thanks to t.bugz@lament.cjb.net for the patch.
    • Started looking into drag and drop meta bug.
    • Looked into drag & drop from advanced search to 3 pane, found out that we will need to handle multiple src folders in our code.
    • Have a fix for confirm move to trash dialog doesn't appear when drag and drop folder to trash.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Has fix for Bug 154370: generated HMTL code of mail has a bug
    • Checked in a patch for James Nord<teilo+bugzilla@teilo.net. to allow the ability to have additional header options.
    • Fixed an IMAP crash caused by certain text in the subject field.
    • Made it so that when "forwarding inline" an encrypted message we enable encryption.
    • Fixed  "From - ..." line in saved and forwarded mails (Mozilla's eml is regarded as virus by Trend Micro ScanMail)
    • Fixed Crash in DocumentViewerImpl::LoadComplete when saving a draft in a local folder
  • Rajiv
    • Implemented the ConduitSync class
    • Completed coding of the Conduit part of AB Palm sync
    • Started working on the sync logic and the Mozilla part of Palm sync
  • Sean
    • Working on Win XP SP1 issues for mail and installer.
    • Working on refresh problems with new desktop icons.
  • Seth
    • Code Reviews.
Mailnews
July 22
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Disclaimer: this status is only for the mailnews contributors inside Netscape; other development work has been going on. Non-Netscape mail-news contributors are encouraged to send their status reports directly to <tor@cs.brown.edu>.

Highlights:

  • Landed Windows XP SP1 support changes.
  • Fixed an address book migration bug on the branch.
  • Started working on drag and drop bugs for Buffy
  • Fixed a few crashes.
  • Marked as fixed1.0.1 3 bugzilla bugs on the branch.
  • Resolved as fixed 16 bugzilla bugs on the trunk

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Fixed an address book migration bug on the branch.
    • Worked on making AB sync work with mailing lists.
  • Bhuvan
    • Made it so we don't show a warning when closing Account Wizard without making any change.
    • Has a patch for making it so that when you add an account and cancel you get asked if you really want to exit.
    • Is working on polishing mailnews preferences.
  • Sean
    • Worked on and landed fixes for Windows XP SP 1 support.
    • Helped Curt make it so we don't rearrange desktop icons when installing on Windows XP.
  • Varada
    • Has a fix for forwarding message with blank subject reveals mail server, user name, folder name.
    • Has a fix for the delete key not working in the search ui results pane.
    • Has a fix for making the the address icon clickable and opening the Address window.
  • Navin
    • Fixed a bug were we couldn't delete imap folders when using "mark as deleted" delete model
    • Continued to update the drag and drop meta bug with more bugs.
    • Have a fix for making it so that dragging a message to the standalone window loads it.
    • Has a fix for using different flavor for drag and drop of messages from folders. This makes the code faster and cleaner.
  • Rajiv
    • Continued development of Palm sync
    • Developed the nsIAbIPCCard class
    • Implemented the code to send a list of address books via COM to the calling process
    • Implemented the code to Load updated data from AB since last sync
    • Implemented the sync logic to deal with merging of records modified both on Palm and Moz AB
  • Srilatha
    • Worked on Palm/AB sync. Implemented a way to save and retrieve the list of deleted cards in a table. Still need to add couple of attributes to the card.
  • Seth
    • Code Reviews
  • David
    • Fixed undo of delete of top level message in thread leading to messed up display
    • Fixed crash selecting invalid line in thread pane of imap folders
    • Found fix for extreme slowness when doing fcc to IMAP sent folder on non UID+ servers (but not checked in due to 1.1 freeze)
  • Jean-Francois
    • Has a partial fix for making it so that mail is deciphered before replying to or forwarding that message.
    • Fixed the remaining problems for "From - ..." line in saved and forwarded mails (Mozilla's eml is regarded as virus by Trend Micro ScanMail)
    • Fixed an imap crash on the branch.
    • Worked on a regression with Kathy Brade where plain text compose and reply were busted.
    • Fixed a random crash after doing a forward inline on the trunk and branch.
Mailnews
July 29
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Disclaimer: this status is only for the mailnews contributors inside Netscape; other development work has been going on. Non-Netscape mail-news contributors are encouraged to send their status reports directly to <tor@cs.brown.edu>.

Highlights:

  • Windows XP SP1 integration landed on trunk.
  • Marked as fixed1.0.1 1 bugzilla bug on the branch.
  • Resolved as fixed 8 bugzilla bugs on the trunk

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Continued working on mailing list sync.  It's mostly working except for a few remaining issues.
  • Sean
    • Added support for Windows XP SP1 Integration on the trunk.
    • Fixed a regression where the installer was failing with -229 script error.
    • Added mnemonics to the mailnews pref dialogs on the trunk.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Continued working on making it so that opening  a .eml attachment doesn't display raw html but instead shows the message that is attached.
    • Continued working on making it so that the message is deciphered prior to replying to or forwarding an encrypted message.
  • Rajiv
    • Continued working on implementing Mozilla side sync with Palm.
    • Started integration of Palm Conduit and Mozilla
  • Srilatha
    • Finished the work that needs to be done for AB/Palm Sync. 
    • Started working on enabling the ability to drag and drop into the mailing list. 
  • Seth
    • Code Reviews
  • David
    • Code Reviews
  • Varada
    • Has a fix for Context menu item 'open message in new window' should behave same as double clicking on a message
    • Has a fix for wrong default domain after selecting different mail account
    • Has a fix for making the address icon able to click, Should select the particular line of the addressing widget.
  • Navin
    • Fixed a possible memory corruption from nsCRT::strtok uses in pop3 protocol code.
    • Made changes to initial patch by joshua.xia@sun.com to fix the imap part of making cancel work in the filterListDialog.
    • Worked on error sending msg when attachments have been d&d on linux. found out native widget code is not handling the case correctly. 
    • Looked into why we cannot download pop3 mail or pop3 mail becomes unusable if profile is stored on network drive after a while (in a session)
  • Dan
    • On vacation

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