Ian Hickson Weekly QA Status

Week Ending 2001-02-16

Spent a great deal of time working on the XBL/XUL/XForms/CSS/DOM UI Proposal as urgently required by W3C-reps.
Performed 279 bug modifications / comments / triage / etc.
Nominated various bugs for nsbeta1/mozilla0.9 or mozilla1.0.
Continued prioritising the most important layout-orientated compliance bugs.
Spent time discussing possible improvements to the style implementation of the new outliner widget with Hyatt.

Goals for this week were displaced by the urgent UI proposal work.

I am planning to go to the W3C conference at the end of February (not quite time off, but I'll be away).

The following areas are currently without QA: HTML (possibly the most important part of a web browser), Tables (both HTML and CSS, a major part of the web as most web pages use tables for layout), DOM Core, and DOM HTML (the two most important parts of DHTML). In addition we are also currently unable to deal efficiently with incoming Layout, Parser, Views and Compositor bugs (together, layout bug triage) because we don't have enough people to work on these areas. Since last week, our head count has reduced, not increased. Now more than ever, I don't think we can safely assure the quality of the project on our current (or projected) head count. The result of this, namely work overload, is further reducing the productivity of our team. I am concerned about this depressing situation.

My hands are occasionally giving me pain, so I tried out various keyboards that are in use in CPD. If I find a keyboard that alleviates my pain, I will put in a request.