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status update

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

Last Updated Wednesday June 20, 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
June 11
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • bug fixing and triaging continues.

Highlights

  • darin
    • fixed bug 136210 (trunk/1.0.1) - cannot view any https urls when memory cache size is set to 0
    • fixed bug 100595 (1.0.1) - crash [@ nsMultiMixedConv::FindToken] [was: sandiegozoo.org - this site crashes the browser, every time]
    • fixed bug 136956 (1.0.1) - HTTP preferences panel needs to control proxy settings as well
    • fixed bug 145382 (1.0.1) - cleanup 'HTTP Networking' prefs panel
    • fixed bug 60811 (1.0.1) - [RFE] User should be able to force HTTP proxy transactions to use HTTP/1.0 exclusively.
    • fixed bug 144442 (1.0.1) - Cannot Load TDWaterhouse webbanking login page
    • attended friday security review meeting
    • finalized patch for bug 147333 - Cannot load local files whose names contain Japanese/Chinese characters (just waiting for checkin approval)
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Fixed a M1RC3 top crash in nsLocalFile::GetPath. Bug 147665.
    • Attend second security review meeting.
    • Reviewed DP's improvements to the recycling allocator.
    • Fixed top crash in nsFileTransport::Process [nsFileTransport.cpp, line 753] and the "move-email-crash-issue". Bug 107214
    • Investigated the topcrasher 142847 Trunk crashes launching mail [@ nsBufferedInputStream::Fill] [@ MSVCRT.DLL | msvcrt.dll - nsBufferedInputStream::Read]. Ben's fix doesn't completely solve the problem. See my posting in the bug.
    • Spent time responding to dp's comments on bug 48888.
    • Spend some time on a secret hack.
    • Bug Triaging. Much bug triaging.
  • neeti

Lowlights

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • more bug fixing, triaging, reviewing, etc.

Issues

Mailnews
June 14
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

Highlights

  • Fixed a case where the thread pane had a different message selected than the message pane was showing.
  • LDAP authentication landed on the branch.
  • Open Link in New Window works in the standalone message window.
  • Can now disable plugins and block images from server in mail.

Mailnews Accomplishments

  • Cavin
    • Landed the fix for a case where the message pane wasn't showing the selected message.
    • Fixed a hang when importing an ldif address book.
    • Checked into the branch the fix for allowing you to enter your password again if you entered it incorrectly the first time and had checked remember password.
    • Worked on a topcrash in MsgKeySet.
  • Seth
    • Looked into View All Headers hang and handed it off to Shuehan
    • Looked into problems with context menus in the standalone message window and handed it off to Sean.
  • Sean
    • Fixed the default size of the mail 3 pane on the branch.  The usability tests showed that it was too small.
    • Made "Open Link in New Window" work in the standalone message window.  Also fixed other issues with the context menu.
  • David
    • Helped Cavin with topcrash in nsMsgKeySet on the branch
    • Checked in rest of fix for disabling move/delete in readonly folders on the trunk.
  • Varada
    • Fixed a bug where we were erasing the compose window's message contents after using main menu item: Search the Web
    • Got mail smoketests working and running on lhasa.
  • Jean-Francois
    • Added a  pref to disable plugins while displaying a message
    • Made block image from server available in mail client
    • Fixed the bug where every other time Composer opens, cursor is not in address field
    • Made it so we recognize mailing lists (as bcc) in Templates/Draft
  • Navin
    • Fixed certain cases where scrollbar was missing upon returning to folder view after doing quick search.
    • Fixed a subscribe error alerts when sending and copying mail msgs to imap sent folder w/o launching mailnews. 
    • Fixed regressions(no mail counter, could not stop download etc) on pop3 automatic downloading on biff. 
  • Srilatha
    • Posted a patch for creating the same registry keys from the installer and the client for simple MAPI settings. 
    • Posted a patch for pre-configuration of ldap server prefs.
  • Rajiv
    • Looked into the details of Palm Conduit Framework
    • Looked into the details of the 4x conduit code
    • Continued working on the Palm-Mozilla AB sync detail design 
    • Started working on a simple prototype with a basic conduit and a call into Mozilla AB to open an AB Mork DB in the Mozilla process space from the conduit in the Palm HotSync Manager process space.
  • Dan
    • Checked in LDAP auth patch to 1.0x branch
    • Got first cut at patch for LDAP autocomplete automatic selection bug  working
    • Made a couple review passes through LDAP certificate fetching patch
  • Scott
    • checked in new biff icon from UE into the trunk
    • Mozilla security review meetings
  • Bhuvan
    • Patch for Mail Account preconfiguration and locking is under review.
    • On Vacation
JavaScript
June 18
Submitted by Steve Adamski <thesteve@netscape.com>

Summary

  • At the ECMA 4 (JS 2) meeting, hosted at Netscape, the language was simplified by removing operator overriding. Also, the committee resolved form a sub-group to investigate XScript (proposed by BEA, Inc.)
  • David Bradley continued to massage his bug list, and served as sheriff on Wednesday (Thank You David!)
  • Kenton has done reviews for bugs.
  • Roger finished his Regular Expression port to Rhino, and to continues to refine plans for JS2.
  • Phil continues much triaging, including updating dependencies to the JS1.5 meta-bug (bug 149801); and he has published a new tar ball of the JS test suite, at the Mozilla ftp site.

Highlights

  • rogerl
    • Finished port of new RegExp engine to Java, tracking down test errors.
    • Investigation of JS2 options - changes to metadata etc. arising from ECMA, examination of CLR.
  • dbradley
    • Continued working the untargetted list. Been slow getting responses back.
    • Tracked down source of a drag&drop problem that showed up when dragging Outlook Express attachments over the toolbar.
    • Finally got a good Mac Carbon build that works, learned more about Mac dev tools.
    • Served as Sheriff on Wedneday.
  • khanson
    • Reviewed bugs including 14044, 85721, 148171, and 151465.
    • Continued triage of bugs.
  • waldemar
    • Prepared for and hosted an ECMA TC39TG1 meeting. At this meeting we formed a subgroup to investigate XScript. We also resolved several technical issues and simplified JS 2.0 by tentatively removing units and operator overriding.
    • Worked on JS 2.0 specification.
    • Starting to prepare for my MacHack presentation next week.
  • pschwartau

Lowlights

  • khanson
    • Review of patch 85721 put on hold.

Plans for next week

  • rogerl
    • Finish off Java work.
    • Begin use of code coverage tool to evaluate test suite.
  • dbradley
    • Vacation!
  • khanson
    • Review patches and fix bugs.
  • pschwartau
    • No update -
  • thesteve
    • initiate my 360 feedback
    • discuss current JS2 plans with Nisheeth

Issues

Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
June 20
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Lots of bug fixes and triaging going on.
  • Neeti on vacation starting Monday.

Highlights

  • darin
    • fixed bug 149090 (trunk/1.0) - viewing an image three times corrupts web pages [leaks file descriptors on all platforms]
    • fixed bug 149073 (trunk) - nsStorageTransport::GetNthSegment is slow
    • fixed bug 147979 (trunk/1.0) - Mac-SSL connections very slow
    • fixed bug 147333 (trunk) - [Solaris,AIX,others?] Cannot load local files whose names contain Japanese/Chinese characters
    • worked on patch for bug 93002 - Improve WIN32 RAS support
    • attended security review of cookies module (part 2)
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Create a prototype embedding application which completely unloaded Gecko and restarted Gecko without exiting the application. I demoed this to the Jud and Chak who found it interesting. I will be creating a clean patch which intergrates this functionality into the embedding library (mozilla/embedding/base).
    • Much bug finding and fixing:
    • Fixed 149745 no mInfo causes odd crash
    • Fixed 148918 nsILocalFile.idl clean up
    • Fixed 149715 do_GetInterface() is not safe to use from embedding
    • Fixed 149730 DNS Service must shutdown
    • Fixed 149754 cleaner xpcom shutdown
    • Fixed 129959 nsDebug depends on nsTraceRefcnt in debug builds.
    • Started porting bug fixes to the mozilla 1.0 branch.
    • Spoke to outside a mozilla component developer about our lack of BHO. This is something that we really need for both application embedders and component developers.
    • Attended the security review meeting.
    • Confidential:
  • neeti

Lowlights

  • gagan
    • no status from pavlov

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • continued bug fixing, triaging, reviewing, etc.
    • in depth security review of cookies module on wednesday with morse and dveditz.

Issues

Previous Updates