Candice,
We are very anxious to begin and learn the process of putting
back to Mozilla. After our discussion last week on the IRC, I
want to suggest the following and ask for your input.
As I said then, we want to ensure two things:
1. We do not break the build
2. We not break any existing functionality
After that:
3. we want to add LDAP access to the Address Book.
Rather than waiting to put this all back at once. I wish to
propose that we attempt to put back the re-factored code only
at first i.e. with no added functionality. This would address
(1) and (2) above.
This would serve a number of issues. It would ensure that
we have in place in the tree a hook to hang our new
added functionality and would also help us to appreciate
the process. It would also aid in people having confidence
in our proposed changes.
We would put this code back against LDAP BUG 36557. This initial
putback would not fix this but would pave the way for a later fix.
Our timescale for this first putback is within the next 1-2 weeks.
We would wish to aid this process in whatever way that we can.
We will be putting these changes against Mozilla 0.8 very shortly.
We will build this on Linux and Win32 and can make both the code
and the binaries available for anybody who wishes to see and use
it. We can provide the code as is and as diffs against the existing
code.
We would probaly need help in building on the MAC. But we can put an
appeal out on the newsgroups for people to help us with this.
Can we involve the Mail/AddressBook QA team in this process. How
do we go about informing them.
Do any manual/automated tests exist for us to ensure that we have
not broken any functionality.
Can you suggest anything else we should be doing?
John M.
