Zach's Blog

Getting back into the swing of things

I've been on the road so long my friend
And if you came along I know you couldn't disagree

Since I went back to school in August, life seems to have zoomed by. Between an insane courseload, researching and applying to colleges, work on two major dramatic productions (including a short stint where I played projection designer), a quick trip to Italy, various hacking projects of my own, producing the three-event 30th anniversary celebration for my school with two festival-style concerts, creating a fancy slideshow sync'd to music in about 48 hours, producing a multi-day Battle of the Bands at school, and shooting for at least a few hours of sleep each night, Mozilla really hasn't been in the picture. And frankly, that has sucked. I finally had the chance to get some real work done during what was an amazing summer last year, and I feel bad that I haven't really been able to continue with the work I began as I had planned. I know I let some people down in the process, and I apologize.

Now that many of those other commitments are either over, significantly lessened (in some cases forcibly by me), or not terribly important anymore, I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. In that spirit, I spent some time tonight working on what turned out to be two critical Litmus bugs: bug 328215 and bug 328268. Neither are fixed, but it's a step in the right direction.

Going forward, I'd love to get a few things moving again with Litmus:

• Enabling Bugzilla user authentication integration
• Finally checking in enter_test.cgi to allow new testcases to be added
• Better/updated documentation
• Some UI work to reduce clutter where possible and make testing seem a little less daunting to casual users
• Building a wiki-like syntax for simple testcase data formatting

It's good to be back!

Posted by zach at February 23, 2006 12:17 AM