Camino news

Once again Mike pinkerton did the right thing : he communicates with Camino's users base. Using mozillazine to say that 0.8 is not around the corner because his schedule is heavy is a good thing , but people who don't closely follow Camino's development won't be aware of the state of things. If I had an account on lets say, versiontracker I would post a link to mike's latest blog entry, in the Camino applications's feedback page.
What does this schedule means for the rest of us ? it means that either we can help by contributing patches are by triagging bugs and both are important and time consuming. Now there's a list of bugs that need to be squashed before 0.8, that list can be found here. You can see that some of the bugs already have patches that just needs to be applied to the tree, others needs to be qaed in order to find smaller test case and thus permit people with coding skills to write patches faster, because they better understand whats going on. Some bugs are already refined and "just" need people with time to write patches.
How can we help to make the 0.8 release faster ?
First:One good way would be to ask for cvs write access so someone with that access could already apply all pending patches that mike does not have time to apply. This would permit pre 0.8 nightlies to be qaed and thus determine if the patches do not create side effects.
Second: bug triagging is still needed on newly and unconfirmed bugs. But it's also needed on bugs that are confirmed but with no test case are way to reproduce every time , and that second option is imho very important.
Third: We must spread the word in order to attract peopple with time and coding skills so bugs get squeshed faster.
I for my part will try to be writting a "Why Camino" pages and will gladly take any input to write that page.