status update

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

Last Updated Thursday July 11, 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.

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Module Updates
Mail/News
July 10
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, and Compose Window, Drag and Drop, Accessibility)
  • Started looking into Spam solutions.
  • Fixed a number of regressions involving forward inline and edit as draft on the trunk and branch.
  • Started investigating mail and installer changes for Win XP Service Pack 1.
  • Marked as fixed1.0.1 5 bugzilla bugs on the branch.
  • Resolved as fixed 12 bugzilla bug on the trunk

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Worked on a case where exporting and reimporting a .tab address book file failed.
    • Started looking into the fact that we couldn't print some mail messages with attachments until Rod came up with the fix.
  • Sean
    • Created a meta bug for mail accessibility bugs.
  • Varada
    • Has a patch for making the smiley dropdown accessible through the keyboard.
    • Has a fix to disable File Save As when there are multiple messages selected.
    • Has a fix to make it so that the compose window title gets updated when text is pasted into the subject field.
  • David
    • Fixed offline move of imap messages when delete model is delete immediately on the trunk.
    • Fixed a crash selecting folder while delete of messages in a local folder is still in process on the trunk and branch.
  • Seth
    • Helped track down a bug where exporting and reimporting a .tab address book file failed.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Fixed a bug where you'd either get a crash or error message when trying to forward inline a message from a folder with a space in the name.
    • Backed out part of the fix for 137071 in order to fix a few regressions.
    • Came up with a fix to enable encryption when doing forward inline.
  • Srilatha
    • Posted a patch for making it so that mailing list names don't get changed even after hitting the cancel button.
    • Worked with Ninoschka, in figuring out the problems with simple MAPI and quicklaunch.
    • Worked with Ninoschka and Seth, in figuring out why tab/text export/import fails.bug.
  • Bhuvan
    • Made it so that the setup recapture dialog doesn't assume browser.startup.homepage is netscape.com
    • Tested and landed patch submitted by Henry.Jia@sun.com for bugzilla bug 80035 (SIMS IMAP: migration causes imap folders to be copied to local mail folder).
  • Scott
    • Attended an XBL security review. Came away with a couple XBL investigations.
  • Navin
    • Made advanced search and advanced ab search work again on trunk.
    • Made folder pretty name show up on the compose send progress dialog. This fixes a localization problem.
    • Fixed a dataloss bug and and made it so we throw an alert on moving msgs to local folder when we have insufficient disk space on trunk.
    • Created a meta bug for drag and drop
    • Fixed it so that IMAP drafts folder are created when saving Drafts when the user doesn't have a Drafts folder on the branch.
  • Rajiv
    • Implemented the PC Manager class for the Palm conduit that interacts with Mozilla using the MAPI infrastructure.
    • Implemented the code to convert the conduit data to MSCOM required data structs and make the calls.
    • Wrote a draft document on Organized View of Mail for easier to manage and browsing mails
  • Dan
    • Got GCC 3.1 plugin patch to work with RealPlayer also; awaiting review.
    • Joined spam-filtering discussion in n.p.m.mail-news
    • Tracked down and fixed bogus message-filter misses on Message-Id and Content-Type: charset=
JavaScript
July 10
Submitted by Steve Adamski <thesteve@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Roger is investigating JS2/SpiderMonkey metadata structures.
  • David Bradley is pruning his bug list, and has made great headway on bug 98811 (Remove GPL and LGPLed libIDL code from tree)
  • Waldemar continues his ECMA standardization work.
  • Phil continues triaging, and creation of test cases (bug 155146, bug 137000, bug 144834).
  • Kenton reviewed patches for Bug 155289 and 155291 .

Highlights

  • rogerl
    • Continuing JS2 work - reviewing existing metadata structures in light of move to SpiderMonkey.
    • RegExp & other bug reviews.
  • dbradley
    • Completed most of the testing bug 98811 removing glib and libidl source
    • Continued working the untargetted list to get its count down.
    • Performed reviews, and general bug investigation/triage.
  • pschwartau
  • thesteve
    • Talking with Jud, about my group's contributions to Gecko 2.0

Lowlights

Plans for next week

  • rogerl
    • Continuing JS2 Metadata - explore SpiderMonkey low level changes.
  • dbradley
    • Help get bug 98811 put to bed.
    • Work on XPConnect doc.
    • Continue getting untargetted bugs targetted
  • pschwartau
    • No update -
  • thesteve
    • More Gecko 2.0 planning & estimation
    • More JavaScript implementation correspondence with Chief Architects.

Issues

Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
July 10
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Doug covering for the whole team! Including Gagan :-) Thanks Doug!

Highlights

  • dougt
    • Published a paper entitled "XPCOM Component Reuse and the Glue Library" and made it available to the public at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/glue/Component_Reuse.html.
    • Discussing library versioning with Blizzard and Valeski.
    • Reviews of windows autodialer stuff.
    • Landed some of pavlov's bugs on the branch.
    • Bug Triaging.
  • gagan
    • Pav is back and promises a report from his conference soon.

Lowlights

Plans for next week

Issues

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