status update
maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>
Last Updated Saturday August 3, 2002
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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
Plans for next week
- gordon
- Meet with Darin, Doug, Jud, and Rick about prepopulated cache design.
Issues
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
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
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
- 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.
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
- David
- 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
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