User:Standard8

Who Am I?

Mark Banner, known as Standard8 on irc.mozilla.org. My homepage is at Standard8.

What I do

In recent months I've been mainly helping SeaMonkey:Home_Page migrate to toolkit (SeaMonkey:Toolkit_Transition).

I normally mainly work on the MailNews:Address_Book supporting SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.

Thoughts in Progress

• MailNews:Address Book Interface Redesign.
• Calendar:Release Build Instructions
• User:Standard8/MailNews Password Manager Migration
• User:Standard8/Thunderbird Branding
• User:Standard8/Contacts
• User:Standard8/TB3 Existing AB Integration Points
• User:Standard8/FTP directory Reorg
• User:Standard8/Content Use Cases
• User:Standard8/Thunderbird_Automated_Tests_Planning
• User:Standard8/Talos Notes
• User:Standard8/Running RefTest
• User:Standard8/libxul

package-compare notes

• Expansions not taken account of e.g. get something like:

-bin/chrome/icons/default/*.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default22.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default24.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default256.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default48.png

• These items are not packaged even though they are generated:
  • common files (adjust for .exe/.dll/.so etc as needed):
    • bin/codesighs
    • bin/maptsvdifftool
    • bin/nm2tsv
      • Used for codesighs tool. Not required in shipped lib.
    • bin/js
      • js command line, not required
    • bin/mangle
    • bin/regxpcom
    • bin/shlibsign
    • bin/xpidl
    • bin/xpt_dump
    • bin/xpt_link
      • Included in NO_PKG_FILES
    • bin/nsinstall
      • Generated for installing files.
    • bin/nspr-config
      • Result of running nspr, not required.
    • bin/dependentlibs.list
      •  ???? Seems to be some confusion as to if this is packaged or not (FF 3.0 & 3.6 do, but 3.5 does not...).

• • Linux / 1.9.2
    • bin/plugins/libnullplugin.so
      •  ????
    • bin/plugins/libunixprintplugin.so
      •  ????
  • Mac / 1.9.2
    • Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/components/oji.xpt
      •  ????
    • Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/DefaultPlugin.plugin/
    • Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle/
    • Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/MRJPlugin.plugin/
      •  ????
    • Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/run-mozilla.sh
      • AFAIK this isn't required.
  • Windows / 1.9.2
    • bin/IA2Marshal.dll
    • bin/plugins/npnul32.dll

Setting up tests for crash-handling

• Test Setup
  • Use checkForCrashes from automationutils.py to check for crashes post-running the test/app
  • Ensure mozconfigs have
    • export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
• Buildbot setup
  • Ensure buildbot specifies the MINIDUMP_STACKWALK environment variable.
  • Ensure buildbot specifies MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_NO_REPORT=1
  • May wish to ensure run step has haltOnFailure=True, warnOnFailure=True, flunkOnFailure = False.

• Misc notes:
  • Using the unittest error parser for tinderbox helps processing.

See bug 522115 for an example.

Misc Notes

Resource Forks

Open Safari, go to a website, then drag the url to your desktop. You'll get a file named like this: “site title.webloc”. • Double click the file will open the website in a default browser. • Dragging the file to Safari or Firefox will also open the url. The “webloc” file is a binary file. The file also contains resource fork.