Archive for March, 2005

localized Thunderbird 1.0.2 builds finally released

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Now, the localized builds of Thunderbird 1.0.2 finally showed up on the ftp servers.
Just for the record, on the first day of localized releases we had (incl. en-US):
Linux builds in 7 languages
Windows builds in 9 languages
Mac OS X builds in 15 languages
Great work everybody!

Hooray! Localized Thunderbirds on their way!

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

After several days of waiting, most of the localized Thunderbird builds, including all packages I made, passed the Mozilla Foundation QA.

Thunderbird 1.0.2 - where are the localized builds?

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Some of you might be wondering where the h* the localized builds of Thunderbird 1.0.2 are.
Well, there are several problems:

Most of the Linux and Mac builds failed QA on friday because they said “©1998-2004″ in the about box instead of “©1998-2005″. Most teams updated their packages within a short time, but they have not […]

Nosy News Sites

Friday, March 25th, 2005

As written in my last post, we are getting the localized builds of Thunderbird 1.0.2 ready.
Some nosy people of several German news sites obviously monitored the tracker bug and thus posted the “final German Thunderbird 1.0.2″ on their site as soon as we signed our builds off.
There are several reasons why this is not good:

The […]

Comment Moderation #2

Friday, March 25th, 2005

I reverted the change again. Happy Commenting!

Thunderbird 1.0.2 localization

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Last night was a hard one. After Thunderbird 1.0.2 has been released, I started wrapping up Mac OS X packages for several localization teams who could not do so on their own. Lots of hard work, but it is nice to see those builds becoming the official ones eventually.
So far, I did […]

Save SeaMonkey

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Most of you might know already:
Mozilla Foundation announced that there will be no final release of Mozilla 1.8, thus ending an era.
But that is not the end of the Mozilla Suite, aka SeaMonkey. A group of volunteers stepped up to save the SeaMonkey. I also plan to support these efforts with all the time […]

Comment Moderation

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Despite of me using wp-hashcash as a spam protection, there where lots of spam comments recently.
Actually, I don’t know if it where comments or trackbacks, WordPress does not seem to show the difference.
As a quick counter-measure, I now require that a comment of a user only shows up if the user had an approved comment […]

Prefwindow V on OS X

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Yesterday I came across the new prefwindow. The first thing I noticed was: the performance of the window animation and the text fade-in *really* sucks. I hope it will be as snappy as a OS X user is expecting it to be in Fx 1.1 (like in Camino e.g.) or this is really going to blow Firefox/Mac out of the water.

Democracy? What’s that?

Monday, March 7th, 2005

ZDNet UK writes:
The EU Council has approved the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, despite opposition from software developers, businesses and some European countries

Do I really have to comment this?
If so, I would just add that several members of the BSA are probably opening huge bottles of Champagne by now, as they see that the money they […]