Entries by asac (Alexander Sack)

Last minute reminder: we have a firefox 3 extension packaging session in #ubuntu-classroom at 1600 UTC today (about 1 hour from now).

This session is great for starters as well as for skilled packagers that want to help getting more extensions into ubuntu.

I have prepared some content that you don’t read in advance (of course you can ). Instead I will cite them during the session. So, here the content:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Firefox3Extensions/Packaging – some extension packaging details
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Firefox3Extensions/ – page to keep important information about proposed extensions

Note: The packaging page above requires a mozilla-devscript package version that isn’t in the archive yet. You can get it from my PPA for now: https://edge.launchpad.net/~asac/+archive

See you all in a few minutes!

If you volunteered testing firefox-3.0 preview packages you will be asked which profile you want to use in future …

The new addons management rocks and you can install ubuntu packages by selecting the right top link “Get Ubuntu Extensions” ...

Btw, firefox 3 beta 3 now has a native gtk print dialog …

The preferences dialog has a polished look as well …

... and some users will definitly be happy that the ability to add certificate exceptions is available again …

Last but not least firefox 3 is still beta and thus not perfect (yet). Read the Release Notes for more details on the glitches in this release.

Enjoy!!

one … two … BETA 3 !

• Accepted: nspr 4.7.0~1.9b3-0ubuntu1 (source)
• Accepted: nss 3.12.0~1.9b3-0ubuntu1 (source)
• Accepted: xulrunner-1.9 1.9~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (source)
• Accepted: firefox-3.0 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (source)
• Accepted: ubufox 0.5~beta1-0ubuntu1 (source)

Beware: this one takes over the world (if not the world, firefox 2 for sure).

Hi all,

there are firefox packages available on http://mozilla.qa.ubuntu.com that need feedback before we can roll them out to the masses. If you are using dapper, edgy, feisty or gutsy on your production system or have chroots/VMs of those ubuntus you can help and make a big difference.

If you want to help, follow the instructions on the website above and provide feedback for the tests associated with each build (click on the build you want to test to see the list of tests).

If you don’t have time to do the full “testplan from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/QA” you still can help a lot by doing the “normal use (15 minutes) with NEW profile” or the “normal use (15 minutes) with existing profile” tests. Those just require you to use firefox as usual and provide us with positive feedback.

If you have any questions, ask on ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com or in #ubuntu-mozillateam on irc.freenode.net.

Thanks!

... finally I got my blog up again and I start with yet another lame post

My latest security backports to the upstream abandoned mozilla 1.8.0 branch are now available at http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/mozilla-security/moz-1.8.1.12a-backports.tar.gz.

Those patches should cover all security related fixes that landed on the 1.8 branch (firefox 2) as of 2.0.0.12 RC3.

I noticed that I didn’t really release any of the post-mortem security patches released in debian and ubuntu. So, here the patchsets for the 1.8.0 branch that contains them all:

• firefox – http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/mozilla-security/moz-backports-ffox-all-1.8.1.12.tar.gz


• thunderbird – http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/mozilla-security/moz-backports-tbird-all-1.8.1.12.tar.gz


• xulrunner – http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/mozilla-security/moz-backports-xul-all-1.8.1.12.tar.gz

Those tarballs ship quilt patch directories. This means that the sequence to apply them cleanly can be found in the contained series file. To apply them to MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH checkout, just copy the directory contained to your checkout (name the directory patches if you like) and run

Have fun!

Well, I am impressed. Iceowl slipped through NEW in just a few hours. Many thanks to our ftp-masters … well done!

Two screenshots Iceowl and its Icedove extension:

Iceowl – Standalone Calendar

Iceowl Calendar Extension for Icedove

tags 388218 + pending
tags 270533 + pending
thanks

Ladies and Gentleman,

I am finally happy to mark this pending … upload should go to sid
today.

iceowl is the unbranded sunbird standalone application.

lightning, the sunbird based thunderbird extension will be called
iceowl-extension … and will be usable in icedove + thunderbird.

I will announce on debian planet once those are uploaded.

Have fun,

mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge13 based on the backport patches I announced yesterday is now available too. You can get it from my security preview archive.

... are available for testing. firefox will be available soon.

use my security preview archive to help testing this release:

• mozilla: 1.7.8-1sarge9
• mozilla-thunderbird: 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8e.1

For reference: The raw patches are http://people.debian.org/~asac/backports-1.5.0.9.tar.gz

Thanks to Ricardo Fernandez we have a great new and consistent artwork for our ice-lizard applications.

For icedove they will land with the next upload … so here some screens.

icedove start-page thumb

icedove about box

icedove credits dialog with new motto: “Icedoves are Free!”

mconnor (Mozilla Corp) and caillon (Red Hat) give hope that mozillas attitude finally starts to change (in the right direction):

• mozilla admits and encourages that distribution builds are the primary way of distributing mozilla software to linux users
• linux contributors will get a chance to form a “strong group of maintainers to drive and own Linux-specific development”, which will have “responsibility for branch policies for Linux-specific code”
• in consequence, distributors will get their chance to integrate linux specific changes into stable branches in order to reduce the patchset needed

That’s all good news, but even better …

“Red Hat and Novell are both going to commit some effort into maintaining the Firefox 1.5.0.x line past the current EOL date this spring” ... thank $GOD for that

Thanks to Mike Hommey we have another set of security updates for
our mozilla apps in sarge. The versions are:

mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge13
mozilla-thunderbird 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8d.1
mozilla 1.7.8-1sarge8

Please use my security archive to get the preview packages and
test them as extensively as possible.

If you encounter any NEW problems, please let us know at pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.

Thanks for your support.

It might be obvious for most that follow recent discussions, but here are the names of our IceLizard applications, as we will probably ship in etch:

• IceWeasel aka Firefox
• IceDove, aka Thunderbird
• IceApe aka SeaMonkey

Now we need some artwork … there is a great draft site in ubuntu wiki that looks quite promising: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IceWeaselIcon

Of course, no guarantees

As I red the post of MJ Ray on planet, I contacted the gnuzilla project and offered to join them in order to make them a good upstream for distributors that cannot obey the new mozilla trademark policy.

My current preference is to use snoweagle for thunderbird. IMO it would be a good choice, as it would be in the same spirit as iceweasel for firefox.

Anyway, more ideas are welcome …

As promissed I made available a preview package for the next mozilla-firefox security update.

The version of this prospective package is: 1.0.4-2sarge12.

If you have a sarge desktop install at hand and want to help, just add my security apt sources from http://www.asoftsite.org/apt-archives.html and upgrade/install mozilla-firefox.

Please test and send NEW bugs to me (asac@jwsdot.com) or to pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.

Thanks!