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status update

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

Last Updated Wednesday June 5, 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
May 28
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Bug fixes and triaging continues.
  • Gordon's on his sabbatical.

Highlights

  • darin
    • fixed bug 141779 (trunk/1.0) - Trunk, M1RC1 Crashes related to DNS caching [@ nsDNSRequest::FireStop]
    • fixed bug 146074 (trunk/1.0) - Proxy-authorization not on all requests after authentication
    • fixed bug 100595 (trunk) - crash @nsMultiMixedConv::FindToken [was: sandiegozoo.org - this site crashes the browser, every time]
    • fixed bug 144442 (trunk) - Microsoft-IIS/4.x and Netscape-Enterprise/3.x do not support pipelining
    • worked on patch for bug 145382 - cleanup 'HTTP Networking' prefs panel
    • worked on patch for bug 140472 - No escape for non ASCII host name
    • reviewed patches (gordon's disk cache patch in particular)
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Investigating fix for http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139556.
    • Landed a patch for removing strings requirement of unfrozen nsCRT class. Thanks to scc on this one. The XPCOM samples are now reusable betweeen multiple post rc3 versions of mozilla.
    • Fixed a crash in the thread pool which occurs if Init fails. Thanks to laotzu@pobox.com (Mathieu Fenniak) for finding and posting an inital fix.
  • gordon
    • Leaving for sabbatical.
    • Code reviewed Data Cache Block patch (bug 81724) with Patrick Beard and Darin Fisher.
  • pavlov
    • Fixed topcrash bug 145147.
    • Working on bugscape bug 13789. Have a few leads on what the problem might be.
  • neeti

Lowlights

  • gordon
    • Feedback from reviews require two changes to patch which I don't have time to make until I get back from sabbatical. The Disk cache needs a reference counted class wrapper for it's device lock, which nsDiskCacheStreamIO needs to reference. Secondly, incomplete cache entries resulting from errors need to be doomed, but there are lock order issues that need to be resolved to avoid deadlocks.

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • triage and fix more bugs, etc.
  • pavlov
  • gagan
    • Contemplating putting mozpoint out on Mozdev.

Issues

Mailnews
May 31
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Highlights

  • Fixed a couple of bugs where the password dialog wouldn't come up on the trunk.
  • Started looking into the requirements for Palm Pilot sync
  • In offline mode, Ctrl-Enter now does Send Later.
  • Open link in new window from the standalone message window works on the trunk and is nominated for rtm.
  • Mail Account and LDAP Directory locking and preconfiguration are close to being done.

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Navin
    • Fixed a crasher when downloading pop3 mail with malformed "From" address on the trunk.
    • Fixed a problem where filters were getting trashed in a multiuser environment (when saving rules.dat using same tmp file) on the trunk.
    • Fixed a regression where automatic downloading of pop3 msgs was not updating msg counts in the status bar on the trunk.
    • Fixed a bug where mailnews was not asking for password if the password manager had the wrong password on the trunk.
  • Cavin
    • Fixed a bug where choosing "remember password" and entering a wrong password doesn't bring the password dlg for mail again on the trunk.
    • Started investigating a couple of import bugs.
  • David
    • Checked in fix for mork memory allocation bug that prevented AB from importing long mailing lists on the branch
    • Disabled delete and move for read only IMAP folders and newsgroups.
    • Made it so we display an error message if imap server connection fails w/o an error (for servers that limit the number of connections per ip address).
    • Added UI for specifying the number of IMAP server connections to cache.
  • Varada
    • Fixed a bug where the Account wizard was vanishing after one screen when trying Send page/link/image without mail being configured on the branch.
    • Made it so that In offline mode Ctrl-Enter does a 'send later' on the trunk.
    • Made it so that when you Import "Mail", and create a new message the account wizard comes up on the trunk.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Made it so we recognize mail list (as bcc) in Templates/Draft on the trunk.
    • Fixed a bug where every other time mail compose opens the cursor was not in the address field on the trunk.
    • Made it so that a new compose window doesn't show the old subject on the branch.
    • Fixed a bug where replying to a html attachment, 1/2 of content is cut off on the branch.
  • Srilatha
    • Has posted a patch for locking global prefs and also to disable the delete button when a locked ldap server is selected.
  • Seth
    • Audited our timer code, to make sure nothing was firing after exit.
    • Reviewed, finished and landed antonio.xu's bug:  context menu problems in the stand alone msg window including open new link in window not working.
    • Fixed a bug on the trunk were clicking the subscribe button doesn't make the checkbox next to the subscribed newsgroup show up until another group is selected.
    • Made it so we have support for generic import columns with ldif import/export on the trunk.
  • Dan
    • Has continued to work on ldap authentication.  Almost all reviewer comments have been addressed at this time.
  • Rajiv
    • Started investigating the requirements for implementing an Mozilla-Palm Address Book synchronization module.
      • looked into the details of Address Book APIs in MAPI for IPC interaction with Mozilla Address Book.
      • looked into the requirements for implementing HotSync process of Palm used to synchronize data between a Palm application and the corresponding desktop application.
      • looked into the Netscape 4x implementation of Communicator AB Palm synchronization
    • Started writing the analysis and requirements document for Mozilla/Netscape Address Book HotSync.
XSLT
June 4
Submitted by Axel Hecht <axel@pike.org>

I have some good news for you. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113611 landed and will be part of mozilla1.1alpha. Size of the patch was some 10k lines, +3714/1943.

First of all I'd like to thank Peter and Jonas for digging thru the beast a few times, and jst for the quick sr so that we made the freeze.

You should see a bunch of improvements, most noticable speed. Here are a few numbers by peterv:

 before after speedup
attsets 5136 4179 19%
avts 29967 19532 35%
axis 1211 1006 17%
bottles 24188 24703 -2%
breadth 890940 31262 96%
chart 9499 9382 1%
creation31559 28648 9%
current 1915 1689 12%
dbtail 29469 17163 42%
decoy 2252815 311982 86%
depth 17057 8153 52%
encrypt 11243 10773 4%
  3304999 468472 86%

Also fixed is:

  • namespace handling in XSLT (that is not namespace nodes or axis, though) (namespaced variables are http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117658)
  • namespace handling in DOM level 3 XPath
  • correctness in XSLT Patterns, those follow the grammar pretty strict now.

Namespace lookup is moved to the parsing of expressions/patterns, nametests are really nametests and work on namespaceID and localName atom, the matching-template-lookup was redone and now searches sorted by priority (which significantly cuts down the number of patterns we try).

Mailnews
June 4
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Highlights

  • Mailnews security/privacy work is starting to land.  js and cookies are now disabled in branch builds and there are fixes for allowing plugins to be disabled and images to be blocked in mail on the trunk.
  • LDAP authentication landed on the trunk

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Fixed an Outlook mail import bug on the branch.
    • Fixed a Eudora AB import bug when importing cards without email addresses on the branch.
    • Made it so that cards that only have an email address can sync on the branch.
    • Helped fix a crash importing mail from Outlook.
    • Has a fix for Import Outlook AB: Web pages not mapped correctly (Home Web Page becomes Work Page) on the trunk.
    • Landed a fix for Malformed From dates in import of Outlook Express folders on the trunk.
  • Seth
    • Made it so that hitting enter in the AB card notes field doesn't close the dialog on the branch
    • Made it so we can delete a mailing list from the directory pane on the branch
    • Made it so double clicking a card in the AB sidebar panel brings up a prefilled compose window on the branch
    • Landed the fix for making the subscribe dialog's checkboxes get checked when the subscribe button is clicked.
    • Landed the fix for preventing the password dialog from showing up after you've exited but are in quick launch mode on the branch.
    • Made it so that Tinderbox panels don't appear in the sidebar by default on the branch.
  • David
    • On the branch
      • Fixed selection command updating problems 
      • Fixed a crash after removing and adding back news server in same session
      • Made it so we don't mark imap messages read when compacting offline store
      • Made it so we don't show multiple copies of messages when viewing threads with unread
      • Checked in Navin's fix for removing the password from wallet when login fails.
      • Checked in Navin's fix for being able to undo a move from an imap to a local folder.
      • Checked in Navin's fix for speeding up pop3 msg retrieval.
      • Checked in Jeff Tsai's fix for a problem with MDN replies to msgs with long non-ascii subjects
    • On the trunk
      • Fixed a regression causing problems starting up with missing imap INBOX.msf
      • Fixed threading by subject
      • Added code to sync msg hdr flags with newsrc flags when they get out of sync because of a crash.
  • Varada
    • Landed fix for Import "Mail", Create new message and Account Wizard doesn't appear on the branch
    • Made it so Ctrl-Enter does a send later when offline on the branch.
    • Helped with Outlook importing crash.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Made block image from server for mailnews work on the trunk.
    • Fixed a crash importing mail from Outlook on both the trunk and branch.
    • Made it so js is turned off by default in mail on both the trunk and branch.
    • Made it so cookies are disabled by default in mail on both the trunk and branch.
    • Made the 3 pane window obey mail format preferences on the Mac on the trunk
  • Srilatha
    • Helped with Outlook import crash.
    • Made it so autocompletion works with LDAP servers with multibyte base DN on the branch.
    • Fixed the Default mail pref so it works when preferences are launched from the mail window.
  • Scott
    • Attended security review for Mach V
  • Rajiv
    • Continued working on researching the implementation of Mozilla/Netscape7x AB HotSync with Palm AB
    • Wrote an analysis document for Mozilla/Netscape7x AB HotSync
    • Setup the build environment for development of the Palm HotSync Conduit
    • Downloaded a ROM image from a Palm device and configured to be used as a Palm emulator
    • Started working on the detail design and started writing the design document for Mozilla/Netscape7x AB HotSync
  • Dan
    • Finished LDAP auth patch (bug 135778) and got it checked into the trunk.
    • Started reviewing code to fetch certs from LDAP servers (bug 119394).
  • Sean
    • Worked on making the default folder pane size larger because usability tests show that the fact that it was being obscured by the sidebar made it hard to switch folders
Navigator
June 4
Submitted by Peter Trudelle <trudelle@netscape.com>
Navigator team progress report should be appearing here soon: http://mozilla.org/xpapps/progress/2002-05-31.html.
Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
June 5
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • lots of bugs continuing to get fixed.
  • Darin's help with Citibank's issues much appreciated. Thanks Darin!

Highlights

  • darin
    • fixed bug 145382 (trunk) - cleanup 'HTTP Networking' prefs panel
    • worked on patch for bug 136210 - cannot view any https urls when memory cache size is set to 0
    • worked on patch for bug 147333 - Cannot load local files whose names contain Japanese/Chinese
    • attended meeting with intl folks to discuss solutions for bug 147333
    • attended security review meetings
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Fixed ftp from not working against servers that run on port 22.
    • Wrote a document which describes the functionality of Mozilla Port Blocking: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html
    • Fixed Crash in js_FreeStack, bug 139556.
    • Reviewed a fix for an anomaly in return value of AppendElement method in nsSupportsArray.
    • Fixed a M1RC3 top crash in nsLocalFile::GetPath. Bug 147665.
    • Reviewed Neeti's patch to fix a windows recursive copy error bubbling up problem. Bug 142629.
    • Checked in mkaply's XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK fix for os2.
    • Attended security review kickoff.
  • neeti

Lowlights

  • darin
    • lot's of incoming bugs :(
  • gagan
    • Cache block files work may have to wait since Darin's been discovering problems in that code.
    • No status from pavlov.

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • fix bug 147333
    • land http prefs UI cleanup on the branch.
    • work on more bugs, etc.

Issues

Previous Updates