status update
maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>
Last Updated Thursday July 11, 2002
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Previous Updates
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=
Summary
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Roger is investigating JS2/SpiderMonkey metadata structures.
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David Bradley is pruning his bug list, and has made great headway on bug
98811 (Remove GPL and LGPLed libIDL code from tree)
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Waldemar continues his ECMA standardization work.
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Phil continues triaging, and creation of test cases (bug
155146, bug
137000, bug
144834).
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Kenton reviewed patches for Bug
155289 and 155291
.
Highlights
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rogerl
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Continuing JS2 work - reviewing existing metadata structures in light of
move to SpiderMonkey.
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RegExp & other bug reviews.
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dbradley
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Completed most of the testing bug
98811 removing glib and libidl source
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Continued working the untargetted list to get its count down.
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Performed reviews, and general bug investigation/triage.
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pschwartau
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thesteve
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Talking with Jud, about my group's contributions to Gecko 2.0
Lowlights
Plans for next week
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rogerl
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Continuing JS2 Metadata - explore SpiderMonkey low level changes.
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dbradley
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Help get bug
98811 put to bed.
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Work on XPConnect doc.
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Continue getting untargetted bugs targetted
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pschwartau
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thesteve
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More Gecko 2.0 planning & estimation
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More JavaScript implementation correspondence with Chief Architects.
Issues
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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